Does evil or fear lead one to the following: experience violence
Many children had been affected by the genocide, and they are the ones left to remember the memories of the fallen. They will always be the ones shouldering the memories of the dead, of the family that they have lost. They have done nothing to prompt the killings, but because the of people who are older that should be wiser, they were forced to live through those memories of the rest of their life. They will always regret not being able to do anything, they will always remember the helplessness that they had to live through.
The children that have been left all experienced the violence firsthand. They have seen people they know murder and be murdered. Just that is enough for them to lose their trust in other people. Valentina had watched as her brother and father were killed by people in her own village. She watched as her mayor, someone whom she should be able to trust take up a machete and murder others. In the scared place of the Church was where the massacre was held, it will always symbolize loss to them.
The children left orphaned and to fight for their own survival, they had lived a life that us people here would not be able to imagine. They live in fear of tomorrow, of how they will be able to survive. Although the worst has already passed, they are too haunted by memories of the past and the uncertainty of their future.
The evil of the genocide has given the children a burden that they will not be able to get rid of. As long as they remember the blood shed by those who tried to survive, they will always fear. They will always fear themselves, of others and of the memories. To the extent where some of those kids would rather die and be rid of the ever constant memories that they are forced to relive.
They will never be able to stop fearing, not until the day that they die.
The violence was just the beginning...
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