re·ver·ber·a·tion - a continuing effect; a repercussion

In Hotel Rwanda, there were many scenes in which it was instinct for my body to protect itself and tense up or look away and get anxious. One scenes that gave me an intense emotional response was when Paul's son hadn't been found during the first night of the attack, and they found him crying and shaking covered in blood in the bushes. Watching them carry him and lay him on the kitchen table, frantically wiping down his body and looking for wounds as the poor boy sobbed. I felt just a sliver of the worry and anxiety it must've felt to look at your child in a situation like that. (Im an i n c r e d i a b l y empathetic person lmfao). When they didn't find any wounds I wasn't washed over with relief. My first thought was "Thats not any better, those mental wounds could be irreparable - having this little boy aching for the rest of his life." The severity of this event left unimaginable trauma for everyone involved. But imagine being a child- with not much to previously reflect on, no real understanding of the world just yet, being new to all this and taking everything in with curiosity and walking the rest of your life having seen the utter worst of humanity before your own eyes, and in flashbacks in the back of your head for the rest of your life. Still after the genocide, being a victim of the system that can't provide you justice. Imagine loosing parents and important family members to the genocide and being alone to face the crumbled family network, judicial system, and educational system that you are left with following it. Imagine bearing the burden of rebuilding yourself, your life, your culture, and your community all at ounce after being worn down by an event like that. Those children that managed to escape death, survived rape, torture, witnessed the killings of their loved one, hid under cuorpses or worse the dead bodies of a loved one. The international communities money has not been distributed properly. Inadequate resources have been devoted to address the real concerns and desperate needs of these children left to the system. Funds aren't distributed fairly and blatant human right violations are still turned a blind eye to. Im writing this in hopes to hit deep. When people deeply resonate and empathize with situations of injustice that is when the most action is done. I want to push the idea that nothing finished when the attacks were done, the problem wasn't fixed just there. Theres still a lot that can be done.