Pondering the failure of humanity

TO describe 11-year-old twins Cynthia and Sonia Dushime as being lucky wouldn’t tell the true story of their tragic lives.

Nobody knows how the sisters, then only babies, miraculously survived the genocide in Rwanda, when their entire Tutsi family was wiped out by rampaging Hutus.

Not as fortunate were sister and brother, Yvonne Uwera, aged five, and Yves Mugisha, aged three, who were brutally hacked to death by machete at their grandmother’s house.