Rwandan Genocide: 4/7 - 7/15 1994

Rwandan "GENOCIDE"

7 April – 15 July 1994

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF REFLECTION ON THE 1994 GENOCIDE AGAINST THE TUTSI IN RWANDA

The World Must NOT Forget!

Scholarly Estimates: Around 500,000

to 662,000 Tutsi Deaths

President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame

Honors Victims and Survivors on

29th Commemoration

" . . . the Spirit of oneness to give us hope for

a better future . . . "

Must See Video:

Courtesy, RwandaTV

'Genocide denial is a dangerous and deliberate attempt to block the truth'

Learn more on the following web pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kagame

‘It can happen anywhere’:

United Nations General Assembly

Reflects on Rwandan Genocide

14 April 2023

Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda 2023.jpg

Courtesy, United Nations

“We are together to mourn the more than one million children, women, and men who perished in 100 days of horror 29 years ago,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

“We pay tribute to the resilience of the survivors [and] recognize the journey of the Rwandan people towards healing, restoration, and reconciliation. And we remember – with shame – the failure of the international community. The failure to listen and the failure to act.”

In April 1994, decades-long intercommunal tensions and clashes unfolded before the world’s eyes into genocide, as Hutu leaders led a deadly campaign against the Tutsi. The bloodshed unfolded, despite the presence of the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda and despite the General Assembly’s unanimous adoption of the Genocide Convention in 1948, which defines genocide as a crime under international law.

“The killings did not start spontaneously,” Mr. Guterres said. “They were carefully planned long in advance and executed deliberately and systematically; it was premeditated murder in broad daylight.”

A generation since the genocide, “we must never forget the dangers posed by the fragility of civility in all societies; it precedes and promotes violence”, he cautioned.

Text, United Nations: https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/04/1135667

United Nations Outreach Programme

on the 1994 Genocide Against
the Tutsi in Rwanda

Courtesy, United Nations

Learn more on the following web page:

https://www.un.org/en/preventgenocide/rwanda/day-of-reflection.shtml

After the Rwandan Genocide, has the World Learned its Lesson?

https://www.voanews.com/a/has-the-world-learned-its-lesson-20-years-after-rwandas-genocide/1887666.html

Courtesy, VOA: FILE - Mike Nkuzumuwami stands by the rows of human skulls and bones that form a memorial to those who died in the redbrick church that was the scene of a massacre during the 1994 genocide.

The heinous, horrific crime of

"Genocide" is yet occurring

around the world in

the 21st Century!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/04/02/11-powerful-photos-from-the-aftermath-of-the-rwandan-genocide/

Although the "Rwandan Genocide" occurred

twenty-eight years ago, the world - young

and old alike - must understand the

serious consequences of

committing such a heinous, horrific

"Crime Against Humanity!"

https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/rwandan-memoir-recounts-couples-harrowing-tale

Now, in a new era wherein life seems to be

quickly passing with a tech-driven pace

as though life itself is imprinted with

a new adage, "here today, gone

tomorrow, turn the page and

forget!" But the reality of

"GENOCIDE" is never

forgotten to surviving victims!

https://nyulocal.com/remembering-the-rwandan-genocide-a71d5ff14bdc

https://scholarlyresearchandarticles.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/peace-building-operations-in-the-post-cold-war-era-the-rwandan-genocide/

Nations of the world must not consider the "Rwandan Genocide" an event of the

past to be viewed only in 'black and

white photos' as though it is now

a part of History

to be conveniently forgotten.

https://odihpn.org/publication/twenty-years-on-the-rwandan-genocide-and-the-evaluation-of-the-humanitarian-response/

The Rwandan Genocide is included

in a list of genocides which tells of

numerous genocides in history:

thus, informing the world of slaughterous, brutal attacks intended to destroy the

norms of humane existence.

https://www.yoair.com/blog/forensic-anthropology-after-the-rwandan-genocide/

https://www.newstatesman.com/uncategorized/2014/04/facts-killing-how-write-about-rwandan-genocide

https://tfipost.com/2018/07/rwanda-genocide-church-01/

Survivors of genocidal onslaughts are undoubtedly traumatized

with tremendous horrors and atrocities which are seared into the mind,

body and soul of each victim.

https://tfipost.com/2018/07/rwanda-genocide-church-01/

The Rwandan Genocide and Indifference!

Following Quote Excerpt Courtesy, Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.N. Sergiy Kyslytsya Remarks at U.N. General Assembly Emergency Meeting 07 April 2022

Courtesy, Untied Nations

" . . . Let me now once again refer to the commemoration of one of the darkest pages in recent history. The 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. On this day of grievances and bearing its own tragedy of thousands of Ukrainians killed by the Russian invaders, Ukraine stands together with Rwanda. And calls [to referendum] our pledge to never forget and to never allow the recurrence of Genocide which was the result of the international community's indifference.

To those of you who for these or another reason opt today to keep being a bystander - to abstain, let me quote Elie Wiesel addressing President Clinton in 1999 talking about The Perils of Indifference:

"Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten. The political prisoner in his cell, the hungry children, the homeless refugees -- not to respond to their plight, not to relieve their solitude by offering them a spark of hope is to exile them from human memory. And in denying their humanity, we betray our own."

The genocide in Rwanda was largely due to the indifference of the World's community when the U.N. did not respond to warnings in the U.N. Security Council and in General Assembly a year before the tragedy which we commemorate exactly on this day - on the 7th of April. Today in the case of Ukraine, it's not even a year - because the tragedy is unfolding right now before our eyes. In a couple of minutes, you will have a chance to prove that you are not an indifferent bystander. All you need to do is to press the "Yes" button, and to save the Human Rights Council and many lives around the World and in Ukraine.

On the other hand, pressing "No" means pulling a trigger and means a red dot on the screen. Red is the blood of the innocent lives lost. And this image of the red bloody dots on this screen will stay with you and all of us as long as memory does not fail us. Think about it. Thank you."

See Full Text of Elie Wiesel's "The Perils of Indifference"

View Full Video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FGQiXVy-rE&t=1s

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GLOBAL REMINDER:

Perpetrators of the "Crime of Genocide"

are eventually administered the fullest extent of punishment in accordance

with "THE LAW!"

The identity of any Nation, group [and/or]

individual who commits, enables

[and/or] condones genocide

is permanently recorded in the

History of Humanity on Earth.