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Affichage des articles du septembre, 2019

On SUICIDE

September is Suicide prevention and mental health awareness month. And an incident that happened recently just accentuated why we’re in a critical condition and things are only going downhill. Yesterday, a girl in Kigali jumped from Makuza peace plaza building and fell to her death. In a number of letters she left, she mentioned all the stressors that have been happening and led her to that. While this is heartbreaking; I was even more heartbroken by Rwandan’s reaction to the ordeal. One acquaintance of mine mentioned how she will burn in hell. Others made memes about it. As she had mentioned that one of the reasons she did it was her lover’s rejection; they’re saying that “loving one who doesn’t love you is a ticket to Makuza’s” or “that no girl will be allowed in the building without showing proof that she’s in a loving relationship with someone” This broke my heart on multiple occasion and I ended up cutting ties with a number of people. It breaks my heart that our cul...