War and what comes after | Clemantine Wamariya
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🗓️ 24 April 2018
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when the Rwandan Civil War forced her and her sister to flee their home in Kigali, leaving their parents and everything they knew behind. In this deeply personal talk, she tells the story of how she became a refugee, living in camps in seven countries over the next six years -- and how she's tried to make sense of what came after.
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| 0:00.0 | This TED Talk features storyteller and human rights activist Clementine Wa Maria, recorded live at TED Women 2017. |
| 0:10.9 | Words matter. |
| 0:16.2 | They can heal and they can kill. |
| 0:21.5 | Yet they have a limit. |
| 0:25.8 | When I was in eighth grade, |
| 0:29.4 | my teacher gave me a vocabulary sheet |
| 0:33.7 | with the word genocide. |
| 0:40.0 | I... sheet with the word genocide. I hated it. |
| 0:44.3 | The word genocide is clinical over general, bloodless dehumanizing. |
| 1:00.8 | No word can describe what this does to a nation. |
| 1:10.9 | You need to know |
| 1:12.7 | in this kind of war |
| 1:14.8 | husbands kill wives. |
| 1:19.9 | Wives |
| 1:20.8 | kill husbands. |
| 1:23.7 | Neighbors and friends |
| 1:25.9 | kill each other. |
| 1:30.3 | Some Neighbors and friends kill each other. Someone in power says, |
| 1:35.3 | those over there, they don't belong. |
| 1:41.3 | They're not human. |
| 1:46.7 | And people believe it. |
| 1:53.6 | I don't want words to describe this kind of behavior. |
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