Analysis Of Not In The Crossfire: Persia And My Grandfather

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Title: Not in the Crossfire: Persia and my Grandfather In the past, I wrote about my Grandfather’s admiration of the Gacaca system of truth and reconciliation. (Link) As I remember my late Grandfather, I find his complexities rather useful in understanding current events. The recent protests in Rwanda and its diaspora (#FreeKarenziKarake) are a response to the arrest by British officials of Rwandan General Karenzi Karake. The arrest had me thinking a lot of my Grandfather’s old stories of when he lived in Persia (now called Iran). During the 1960s, my Grandfather lived and worked in Persia as a contractor to assist in the construction of roads, electricity and other infrastructure projects. This was way before the 1979 Islamic Revolution,