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The Poor and again Amen
Belief is the one thing that men in this African country own and the Church is always at their side saying to all, “It is so/Let it be so”. They can`t afford a coffin to bury their dead as they need every cent to survive. So they push their corpses on carts to the edge of the village to place them in a mass grave. Besides there were so many dead there was no time for carpenters to make thousands of coffins. The scene depicted could have taken place during the genocide in Rwanda. Hutu militias had slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Tutsis with machetes. Although both population groups are Christian, the catholic church instead of being neutral supported the ruling Hutus. Thousands of Tutsis fled to churches and convents, where they expected sanctuary. But their belief brought their fall, as the Hutu militia could now easily kill hundreds of men all together. There were even nuns and priests who held the doors of their churches open for the bands of murderers. A Belgian court years later found two Catholic nuns guilty of aiding the genocide.