Carl Wilkens: Conversations with a Genocidaire — Transcript

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1. 0:08so when i came to his office for the
2. 0:09first time you know i i said to him you
3. 0:12you announced on the radio recently that
4. 0:14all the eight organizations have left
5. 0:16rwanda except for the red cross i want
6. 0:18you to know andra is still here um we
7. 0:21don't have much
8. 0:23but i want to do what i can to help how
9. 0:26can i help
10. 0:27and so he basically um
11. 0:29says good good i'm glad you're here you
12. 0:31know and after you ask questions about
13. 0:32my safety and where i'm sleeping at
14. 0:34night and just showing genuine concern
15. 0:36for me this is this isn't like i've come
16. 0:38into a government office and there's
17. 0:40this uh
18. 0:42evil person who's orchestrating the
19. 0:44slaughter many people are like oh we've
20. 0:46got this guy to deal with you know no
21. 0:47he's very open and cordial and um man
22. 0:51we're facing difficult times here it's
23. 0:53it's
24. 0:54pretty
25. 0:56bizarre how you can think that you know
26. 0:58we're talking about
27. 1:00difficult times and people need help at
28. 1:02these orphanages without really talking
29. 1:05about you know it's almost as if we've
30. 1:08had an earthquake and we've got to
31. 1:09respond to this earthquake or something
32. 1:11like that and i
33. 1:12even myself i look back at this and i'm
34. 1:15like
35. 1:16why did i
36. 1:18not
37. 1:19ask more questions or
38. 1:21you know um
39. 1:23i don't know
40. 1:25we just we the the needs that were there
41. 1:28were so strong in our face that we just
42. 1:30worked to respond to those needs as best
43. 1:33we could