Rwanda and the fight against genocide ideology



NEW YORK: -- Twenty-two years ago on April 7, Rwanda’s ethnic Hutu militia, armed with machetes began slaughtering minority Tutsis. More than 800,000 people were systematically murdered in 100 days including Hutu’s who refused to join in the killing.

It followed the shooting down of the plane carrying then-president Juvenal Habyarimana.

To this day the United Nations says about a third of survivors are still traumatised.

Adama Dieng, UN Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide has warned that divisions in society can, given the right circumstances, lead to an ideology of genocide:

“Genocide doesn’t happen overnight. Genocide is a process. It takes time, it requires resources, planning and we do know that genocide is always preceded by serious violations of human rights. We need to invest more to remind the leaders of their role in managing diversity in the most constructive manner.”

In 2015 Rwanda’s genocide court held its last hearings but despite dozens of convictions there are still many people who have escaped justice and a most wanted list has been issued by The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT).

Today the emphasis is more on the need to learn the lessons of the past and to support the healing among those who survived.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-04-07

The snag is that the 'right-on' Modern Political Ideologies of the likes of the UN and Mr Dieng and many others simply cannot be applied to centuries of tribal conflict and it is a waste of time, resources and effort to try and do so which highlights why these institutions are such a waste of time and money.

It would be far more productive to put similar time and effort into educating and modernising both minorities than preaching at them about their past 'mistakes' as this knob seems to want to do.

I think te nearest thing to making it real to the people who dont know,was the film 'Hotel Rwanda' after watching that i was sickened for a long time.I cant imagine how those UN guys felt,having to leave knowing what was about to happen.

The reason evil prevails,is when good men do nothing.(or in this case,not allowed to)

Even when the people asked the UN to shoot them,and the wome and children to avoid the terrible carnage that was about to ensue.

But that couldnt be done,because it would have been seen to be 'uncivilised'

If i was a UN guy that was there then,i would still be waking up in the night,sweating.Those sort of memories dont go away.