Rwandans don’t need to claim genocide or else to feel or honour their losses

Rwandans don't need to claim genocide or else to feel or honour their losses

Christopher Black, Lead Counsel, General Ndindiliyimana

Source: Posted on July 27, 2011 by therisingcontinent 

Discussions on how to call atrocities committed in Rwanda since October 1^st, 1990 and in the whole Great Lakes region of Africa since 1996, this until today, appear ongoing. They may not even have an end at any time. As evidence, even survivors of the holocaust continue reminding the world that what happened to the Jews in Hitler's Germany was genocide. It is their right to do so.

However, motives of those who fight nails and toes out to claim that mentioned atrocities were genocide or else seem often not genuine or disinterested. They come out as defending a brand name instead of a humanitarian cause. I lost lots of my family, friends and neighbours in the Rwandan atrocities. The Rwandan government even denies thousands of survivors the right to be called survivors, only because they are Hutus. Yet Tutsi survivors seem to have become magnets to attract external aid and enrich the Tutsi ruling elite. Those still alive among the two ethnic groups who have been marginalised are imprisoned or treated as citizens of second class. (Read more...)

"Les grands ne sont grands que parce que nous sommes à genoux: levons-nous" ( Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud)

Eugène Shimamungu
Blog: http://editions-sources-du-nil.over-blog.com/
Site: http://www.editions-sources-du-nil.fr/

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