I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
WeDnEsDaY, DeCeMbEr 6, 2006 // post # 43
- Geneviève Bergeron, 21
- Hélène Colgan, 23
- Nathalie Croteau, 23
- Barbara Daigneault, 22
- Anne-Marie Edward, 21
- Maud Haviernick, 29
- Barbara Maria Klucznik, 31
- Maryse Laganière, 25
- Maryse Leclair, 23
- Anne-Marie Lemay, 27
- Sonia Pelletier, 23
- Michèle Richard, 21
- Annie St-Arneault, 23
- Annie Turcotte, 21
Today marks the seventeenth anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. These are the names of fourteen women – thirteen students and one employee. At École Polytechnique, in Montréal, Quèbec, Canada, on this day in 1989, these fourteen women were murdered by a man with a rifle. Thirteen people were injured. Forty-five minutes after the shooting started, suicide ended it.
Because we each enter this world through the body of a woman.
Because the killing of women for being women continues, unabated, among all people, all over the world.
Because blame will not heal this wound.
Because remembrance may teach what hatred forgets — we search the heart.
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I have no memory of reading about this. It is very sad. After wanting to know more about it I found out even more people were victims of this man.
Here is a piece:
Sarto Blais, who had been on campus that day, hanged himself in the following months. His parents subsequently also committed suicide.
An article published in La Presse on December 6, 2004, stated that one student, working part-time for Urgences Santé (Montreal’s emergency medical service), was there studying in the cafeteria that day. He can be credited for helping victims, but he also ended his own life.
He also had a sister who was a student there who committed suicide later. What a tragedy. Where does one trace back the origin of the crime? The murderer? His father? His father’s father?
I’m glad to see you are back here and sharing your art, little bird : )
cindy