The Human Constant

Media, myth, and the persistence of human nature

A Hutu neighbour came to warn us. “I’ve known you for long and I don’t want to kill you,” he said. But he did want to be the first to loot our house.

After the genocide, we learned that our neighbour had not only looted our house, but destroyed it.

Neighbours were pitted against neighbours. This is what a “genocide of proximity” means.

Claver Irazoke, reco…