Rwanda: where is God when bad things happen?
Why was I born in a safe, sanitised and stable Western country? What do I do when I see evil manifest itself in all its horrific guises? These were some of the questions I asked as I stared at the limed bodies of thousands of Tutsi who had been killed where they had taken refuge in a school in Rwanda.
Kate Gore
As a recently qualified barrister, I went to Africa with clinical questions about the operation of justice in a post-genocide society and found that no amount of intellectual posturing could help me to rationalise the deaths of 800,000 Tutsi and Hutus who were killed in the space of 100 days in 1994. I came back with many questions but also with the conviction that God cares passionately about injustice and calls Christians to respond with compassion and practical action.
