CE N5 English 23-24

• "Spiritual Damage"


  Non-fiction reflective essay by journalist Fergal Keane on his harrowing time in Rwanda covering the 1994 genocide for BBC News
• In the 1994 Rwanda genocide, hundreds of thousands of lives were lost at the hands of the Hutu people
• Fergal Keane: 'Through roadblock after roadblock manned by drunken Hutu militiamen'
• Fergal Keane: 'Some dangled their grenades through the open windows of our vehicles'
• Glenn (Keane's crewmate): 'Some bloody place - I mean, can you believe the place? Unreal. Bloody Rwanda.'
• Fergal Keane: 'I am at a loss to describe what it was really like.'
• Keane covering the Rwanda genocide


  He could not stop thinking about his time there, the memories were stuck with him
• Keane unravelled how he and his crewmates were leaving Rwanda and the roadblocks they had to face, the raw emotions they felt as soon as they left Rwanda, and how Keane saw the situation years later
• It must have been hard on Keane to cover this genocide and shove a camera in someone's dead body