Kofi Setordij

Genocide Monument

When Kofi Setordij saw the television images of a bulldozer shoveling hundreds of bodies into a ditch in Rwanda in 1994, as if they were no more than waste, he decided it was time to do something. He considered it his duty as an artist to show the world what had happened in Rwanda. When it became apparent to him that nobody seemed to remember what had taken place, only four years after the mass murder among the Tutsi population, he took action. More