It should have been foretold
We'd just watched it happen
As Serbs and Bosnians fought
Ethnic cleansing went on
But that is a foolish phrase
It should be called Genocide
It didn't stop, didn't even slow
In fact, it became worse
Following the killing
Of the leaders of two nations
Rwanda and Burundi
Assassins had acted
Juvénal Habyarimana
Cyrprien Ntaryamira
It was a trigger to slaughter
And CNN carried the event
Cameras on, played it live
The Hutu slaughtered the Tutsis
Killed peacekeepers from Belgium
The date of April 7, 1994
Should've been the final time
When the world watched in shock
Before acting to stop the violence
But it wasn't, it still goes on
We kill across the planet
And do so in different ways
