Shahter wrote:
gays
are getting beaten here. russia, generally, is very homophobic. but none of that is approved or supported by the government or the public.
lol, the government overwhelmingly passed anti-gay propaganda lies just in the last few weeks. They seem to herd the gay rights marcheres into the truncheons of the mob.
One of the places I went to in Rwanda is the Murambi Technical School.
The government and Belgium U.N. soldiers told the people of the surrounding villages to come to the school, where they would be safe. Some sixty five thousand people did. The U.N. soldiers locked the gates and the militia turned off the water.
Three days later the people were too weak to resist and they were all killed with guns, machetes, clubs, burnt alive, tossed in latrines and other unimaginable ways to die. Kids forced to kill their mothers, etc...
I entered classrooms still filled with bodies. I saw that they had cut the achillies tendons of them adults so they couldn't run, and let them die slowly. I saw chop marks on skulls of babies. The smell was pure evil. I went inside mass graves. People of our team helped disinter bodies as new mass graves were still being discovered, so that the remains and clothes could be cleaned and buried respectfully. ya, I skipped that one.
So where was God in all that?
He was watching the individual actions of the killers. One day I was inside another small church where twenty three thousand people died. On the altar a mother held her baby and they were both ran through with a sword, joined together forever. I remember looking at the bullet pocked walls
and thinking, " what kind of God allows this? " I swear, as clear as day a voice spoke; " If I had spared Able you would not know the lesson of Cain. "
Our driver had machete scars on his arms and back. He ran for his life through the roadblocks in Kibuye and swam to an island in Lake Kivu. He has a kind heart, is always smiling. People that have been through that are capable of greater forgiveness than you or I. The main pastor we work with over there spent three years in prison for genocide crimes. I only found that out after my third trip, and I still love that man. Our driver Kasongo loves that pastor Leonidas, even though nine of his eleven family members perished in the Catholic church that overlooks the town.
You simply cannot judge what you would do under kill or be killed circumstances.
The fact is, foreign powers caused that genocide. They assigned the tribal Hutu or Tutsi brand, stirred them up against each other and then moved in on the gold, lumber and tea while the slaughter was raging, which is rather a standard genocide model.
I wrote a story about my last day in Rwanda which is found
here I forget how to linky to text. Another version is on my website link in my profile.
I have had some amazing experiences over there, good and bad. I will be back next June and am organizing a new missions program with my wife and Journey Community Church in La Mesa. I still don't understand or claim to know all.
I just know that I have impacted hundreds if not thousands of lives over there and they sure appreciate it. There are no big money charities doing stuff of note in Africa. They steal peoples donations and reward themselves.
