the G-word

what do these have in common?

• Nazi German : Jews
• Ottoman Turks : Armenia
• Khmer Rouge : Cambodia
• Darfur conflict
• Hutus and Tutsis in Burundi

genocide is real. and it's heart-rending.


the thing with travelling and making friends with people from other countries & culture is that i become attached. i wanna know how they live where they come from. i wanna know why they act a certain way. i wanna know what happened in their past that makes them think this way.

lately, i've become interested in geography and history because of that. been corresponding through email and reading up feature stories. that's how i stumbled upon the g-word.

i've been hearing about it, true, but it sank only now.

it's just harrowing that it actually exists.