Cardinal Etchegaray : « C'est un pays éclaté, drogué, si l'on peut dire, par la haine, par la violence »

Masure, Bruno

10 juillet 1994

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Cardinal Etchegaray : « C'est un pays éclaté, drogué, si l'on peut dire, par la haine, par la violence »

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- The war in Rwanda: In the final communiqué, the G7 is expected to respond to the French people's urgent request and call for the rapid deployment of a UN force to consolidate a possible ceasefire. - Cardinal Etchegaray visited Rwanda this week and returned deeply moved. Monsignor Etchegaray: "It's a country that's shattered, a country drugged, so to speak, by hatred, by violence. I told them that I didn't understand. And I told them that the whole world doesn't understand. And I told them that 'perhaps you yourselves don't understand what you've become. I don't recognize you anymore!'. And that struck them a little, by the echoes I had. You can't overwhelm these people. But they are a people who feel astonished. They no longer know where they are. They no longer know where they stand. I visited several churches, one in particular that comes to mind where there were 3,000 victims inside the church with three priests! And there was still the smell of corpses, traces of blood all the way to the altar. That was very symbolic. It was above all the hearts that are broken, it is above all mentalities that are as if distorted. So, to take all that back, it will take at least a generation. Not everyone gave themselves over to Evil! There was very strong resistance. I could give many examples in this sense that bear witness to this. There was a very healthy reaction among many".

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