Youths remember fellows killed in Genocide against Tutsi
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On 14-15 May 2016, Young people from the Southern and Eastern Provinces of Rwanda, respectively, remembered peers who were killed during the 1994 genocide perpetrated against the Tutsi.
Youth from across the country have been urged to take part in the fight against genocide ideology as well as to have responsibility of protecting the country.
The commemoration took place in all districts of the said provinces under the theme “Youths, commemorate the Genocide against Tutsi, fighting Genocide ideology”.
Speaking at the commemoration event in Nyanza District, on 14th May 2016, The Minister for Youth and ICT, Jean Philbert Nsengimana, told the youth that they have every opportunity at their disposal to develop themselves.
“Now we are standing on the shoulders of our elders, we can actually look beyond where they can. We must, therefore, take advantage of this and develop ourselves,” he said.
The minister told youths to detach themselves from the genocide crimes that their parents, relatives committed, and rather live in harmony with and support Genocide survivors to be able to build a better country.
Dr Diogene Bideri, the Principle Legal Advisor at the National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG), said that, in the past, the youths were misguided by the former government to participate in the Genocide that it had long planned, instead of using their strength to build their country.
He said that youths should take measures to fight those who negate and minimise the Genocide, especially through social media by exposing the truth about the Genocide.
After the Southern Province, the commemoration event was held in the Eastern Province on May 15, 2016.
Speaking at Kiziguro Genocide memorial site, the Governor of Eastern Province, Odette UWAMARIYA said remembering youth is an act to weaken people who still have negative thoughts of ethnicity.
The event of remembering youth killed in Genocide against Tutsi will be taken to Musanze in Northern Province on May 21; then to Ngororero District, Western Province, on May 22. It will be concluded on May 28 at Petit, in City of Kigali.
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