Rwanda Wrongs

In 1957, there existed a plan To rid Rwanda of the Tutsi clan Power they had, too much for one side The foundation for, future Genocide 1960, the monarchy was gone Will both sides sing the same song Sadly not as the persecutions start Ripping this African country apart 1973, under a new regime Juvénal Habyarimana promised restrain Progress and reconciliation proposed to be For this country to unite, finally 1994, Habyarimana gunned down His assassination, country drowns This killing of him, the carnage starts Population half, ripped apart The killings horrific, no one spared Machete slain, heads caved Hacking, be-headings as families fall As CNN tune in, the world appalled The continuance, of the slaughtered tribes Men, women and children you can't describe Women raped, and the unborn slain This horrific act of human pain Most of the fallen, in their own villages dead By another clan, they thought were friends Indescribable to the world as our televisions show The massacre of innocents, as we watch blow by blow Where does it all end, can we try the same songs How many more of these Rwanda wrongs It appears to be a human trait To kill each other for the sake of it