The genocide against the Tutsi, which took place in Rwanda should not be allowed to happen elsewhere. Commenting on this genocide Boutros Ghali rightly said: “The world’s nations must not say that the challenge is too remote, or too dangerous, or that it fails to meet the criteria for action. It may seem better not to know. It may seem safer not to act. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Racism’
Friends of evil (Chapter 13): Indifference to the demons of race
Posted: August 28, 2013 in BookTags: Boutros Ghali, genocide, Racism, Rwanda, Susan Rice, United Nations
Same Racist Script, African Cast: The Film “Hotel Rwanda”
Posted: November 6, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Belgium, Christian, Denial, France, genocide, God, Paul Rusesabagina, Racism, Rwanda
CONSEQUENCES OF RACISM IN RWANDA: WE NEED TO GET OUT OF APATHY
Posted: October 24, 2010 in Evidence MaterialTags: Armenian Genocide, Catholic Church, Chirigati, France, French, Holocaust, Holocaust Denial, Hutu, Interahamwe, Racism, Tom Ndahiro, Tutsi, Tutsi Genocide, UNHCR, United Nations
By: Ndahiro Tom January 2002
One of the many foreign journalists who were in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide concluded that there were no more devils in hell because they were all in Rwanda. (more…)
Genocide denial in mined minds and hearts
Posted: September 13, 2010 in Genocide DenialTags: 1994, Aegis Trust, British Foreign Office, Calvary, Democracy, Dogma, FDLR, Filip Reyntjens, French, Gahima, General Kayumba Nyamwasa, Genocidaires, Gerald Gahima, hate speech, Hutu, ICRC, Ideology, Ingabire, Johan Pottier, Kayumba, Patrick Karegeya, Peter Erlinder, Philippe Gaillard, Prevention, Racism, RDR, RPF, Rwanda, Rwanda Genocide, Stanislas Mbonampeka, The People, Theogene Rudasingwa, Tutsi, Tutsi Genocide, United Nations
By Tom Ndahiro
On April 8, 2004, as part of the 10th commemoration of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, the President of the International Crisis Group (ICG) Gareth Evans and Stephen Ellis, ICG’s Africa Program Director published an article with a title: ‘The Rwandan Genocide: Memory Is Not Enough’[1] The article reminds: “Each time such an atrocity happens, we look back wondering, with varying degrees of incomprehension, horror, anger and shame, how we could have let it all happen. And then we let it happen all over again.” The two authors maintain that something more than memory is required if another cataclysmic genocide was not to happen, sooner or later somewhere in world. They recommend “effective action” and also reiterated “the need for vigilance is nowhere greater than in Africa, where a genocidal ideology is far from dead, particularly in Central Africa.” (more…)
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