From Crisis to Calling

ONEBE PREPARED

Confronting the Unexpected Dilemma

Sasha’s story begins here, on his and Sheikha’s first day in the Congo. They had been to the US embassy and to the Congolese so-called Ministry of Human Rights, which was anything but. At the day’s end they met with representatives of the International Committee for the Red Cross, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and with officials from other nations supporting the Tutsi rescue operation—the “contact group.” They made it clear they would only be taking the 112 people on the list and no one else. Sasha begins by describing what happened then.

I was just finishing my briefing when the man from ...