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03-06-2010, 10:14 AM
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Lime Preservation
IN 1994, in the village of Murambi, in Rwanda, over 40,000 Tutsis were killed in four days. It was one of the greatest single massacres of the genocide. But that's not why I visited Murambi. I visited because of what happened afterwards, when the bodies were thrown in mass graves and covered with lime to mask the smell. Ironically, the lime preserved the bodies. It mummified them. And so when the survivors came back to identify their dead, they decided to leave some of the bodies unburied. On display, in the schoolrooms where they died.
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03-06-2010, 01:29 PM
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Re: Lime Preservation
Lol! "Was one of the single greatest massacres of the genocide." "Ironcally the lime preserved the bodies. It mummified them." Lol smh.. learn words before you try spurt them out. There was no irony there, and the usage of "massacre" "genocide" leaves alot to be desired. |