Alice Wa Manzi 🇷🇼

She is clothed in Strength and Dignity, and she Laughs without Fear of the Future

[Mathilde Mukantabana @AmbMukantabana]

Happy Liberation Day!
Today, we celebrate the courage, resilience, and vision that transformed #Rwanda🇷🇼 and laid the foundation for the nation we proudly call home. As we honor the heroes of our liberation, may we continue working together to protect our achievements and shape an even brighter tomorrow for future generations!
Dukomeze twubake u Rwanda twifuza. #Kwibohora32.

[Sandrine Umutoni @XandrineUmutoni]

Listening to Gen (Rtd) Fred Ibingira recount how, during the insurgency of late 1990’s, commanders were required to sign letters accepting the ultimate consequences should they fail to stop the advance of the abacengezi, was a powerful reminder of what accountability looked like when Rwanda’s very survival was at stake.

The point is not the firing squad itself. It is that the responsibility to protect the nation was made unmistakably real.

This made me reflect on a question for all of us.

What is the equivalent, in our own fields, of that level of accountability? What consequence, standard or commitment is strong enough to keep us focused on the mission of rebuilding Rwanda and ensuring that our country never again falls into the hands of those who sought to destroy it?

Nations are not only protected by soldiers at the front. They are also protected every day by citizens, public servants, teachers, entrepreneurs, artists and leaders who refuse complacency and take their responsibilities seriously.

These were commanders who had already faced death on the battlefield. Yet what shook them was not simply the prospect of dying—it was the prospect of failing in the duty entrusted to them.

That distinction says something profound about Rwanda’s sense of leadership.

[Ministry of Sports | Rwanda @Rwanda_Sports]

RSSB TIGERS 🇷🇼 ARE THE #BAL6 CHAMPIONS 🏆!

What a comeback! What a performance! Thank you, RSSB Tigers, for this historic and well-deserved victory. 👏🔥

#BAL6 #RwandaSports

[Richard Gisagara @RichardGisagara]

@dusabejambo, réalisatrice rwandaise🇷🇼 de Ben'Imana remporte le prestigieux Prix de la Caméra d'Or du @Festival_Cannes!
🏅🏆Bravo👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
#ProudlyRwandan

[Mathilde Mukantabana @AmbMukantabana]

I am deeply grateful @sacstate for erecting a permanent #genocide monument on its campus. This will spur and continue to be a catalyst for young and future generations to learn & commit to fighting against genocide and genocide denial. Thank for your unwavering support and solidarity through several decades as we continue to commemorate the 1994 #Genocide against the Tutsi.
Thankful as well to all partners, Friends of Rwanda Association, Ibuka USA, and the Rwandan community in California whose commitment made this possible. #Kwibuka32

[First Lady of Rwanda @FirstLadyRwanda]

Dans cet éditorial intitulé “Le Rwanda Commémore: l’audace d’un peuple d’exister, 32 ans après”, Son Excellence Mme Jeannette Kagame revient sur la persistance des discours de haine et la nécessité d’y répondre avec vérité, lucidité et résilience.

“Nous savons que les spasmes de la haine continuent en cette période de Kwibuka. Nous connaissons désormais le rythme.
Nous y répondons par la vérité, avec la même énergie.
Nous résistons en portant plus haut le flambeau, car il est de ces lumières que rien n’éteint: ni la haine, ni le temps, ni le mensonge.”

Lisez l’intégralité de l’Op-Ed: https://t.co/E6kbMbxf58

#Kwibuka32

[First Lady of Rwanda @FirstLadyRwanda]

“We do not say ‘Never Again’ because we believe that the ill has been eradicated, nor that the fight is over; we say ‘Never Again’ because we have embraced the reality of a perpetual resistance against the recurrence of the evil that tried to break us, to erase us.” - First Lady Mrs Jeannette Kagame

As we continue #Kwibuka32, Her Excellency reflects on the enduring responsibility of remembrance, the courage of survivors, and the duty of every generation to defend truth.

Read the full op-ed here: https://t.co/8nRJ8y8860

[Freddy K, PhD, 🇨🇩 @Fkaniki]

32 Years On: Honoring Rwanda’s Resilience

As Rwanda marks the 32nd anniversary of the Genocide against the Tutsi, we stand in solidarity with the people of Rwanda to honor the memory of the victims, pay tribute to the survivors for their remarkable resilience, and commend the Government of Rwanda for its extraordinary achievements in restoring national unity.

While the genocidal forces were completely defeated in Rwanda, they have since spread their hateful ideology throughout the Great Lakes region. As a result, the genocide against the Tutsi continues beyond Rwanda’s borders, particularly in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). State-sponsored hate speech targeting this community remains widespread, and targeted massacres carried out by a coalition of FARDC forces, Mai-Mai militias, the Burundian defense forces, and the FDLR are routinely trivialized.

The silence of the international community demonstrates that little has been learned from the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Paradoxically, individuals who deny this genocide operate freely, while those who stopped it face sanctions. We call for concrete actions to end impunity for genocide and for immediate measures to protect the lives of innocent civilians.

As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, ‘In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.’ @US_SrAdvisorAF @SecRubio @StateDept @YolandeMakolo @mkainerugaba @KagutaMuseveni @WilliamsRuto @PaulKagame

[Rwanda Broadcasting Agency (RBA) @rbarwanda]

President Paul Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame have joined thousands of youth in Kigali City in the #Kwibuka32 Walk to Remember.

The walk started from the Gasabo District offices and is aimed at honouring the victims of the Genocide against the Tutsi and denouncing the genocide ideology. #RBANews

[Sam @SamanthaTeta]

32 years ago today, something was taken from within us that cannot be described anatomically. I do not know a language that can fully capture that fear, pain, loss, and horror.

By July 1994, Rwanda was shattered in spirit, and in the most practical sense. So when people tell us what we should tolerate, or ignore, I want them to understand that baseline, and what starting from scratch truly took.

I also want them to consider what it says about this country and its people, that we are here today, with what we have built together.

Our rebuilding is, at its heart, an act of remembrance. It is about being alive again and so present, so capable, so impossible to ignore that denial itself becomes the small thing.

To those who survived: You’re here, what a gift. You were Rwanda when Rwanda almost wasn’t. Thank you for holding on, and for telling us what you could find the words for.

To those who were taken from us so brutally: you are not lost to us. You are in everything that is beautiful. You are in the children. You are in the soft evening breeze, and the first light of dawn.

You are in the hills, where your laughter was last heard. And we remember you. Always.

#Kwibuka32

[Sam @SamanthaTeta]

In the 1990s, when tens of thousands of génocidaires consolidated their positions in Zaire, preparing to invade Rwanda & finish the extermination, then VP Kagame travelled to several capitals warning of the danger & seeking support to address the situation.

“If the international community cannot do it, then we will,” he said.

The problem, I think, is that people are used to dealing with people who are not serious, who are simply greedy, or who rarely mean what they say or do what they say. Perhaps in the past one might have been mistaken to presume Rwanda such a case. But enough time has passed to clearly show that our government is neither of those things.

Once again, we face a threat capable of destabilizing Rwanda & the entire region. We are vulnerable to the foolish whims of Congolese politicians who weaponize extremist ideologies & treat war as political capital because, to them, some lives are expendable.

Rwandans know the painful consequences of this primitive form of politics. Hate is dangerous because, once unleashed, it is incredibly difficult to contain again.

Yes, that may not mean much to some, but no other generation of Rwandans will know the horror of genocide. This is a promise President Kagame has kept to us for 31 years, and I, for one, have no doubt that he will continue to faithfully keep it.

Through the Washington Accords, we finally have a peace plan that can really work. The full weight of the powers that be, should be to ensure that it is fully implemented by All.

Naho ubundi, what does it mean to sanction a man for a duty he would die for, and a country for which he lives?

[Urujeni @urujeniB]

Du cyclisme au foot, du basket aux touchdowns, les stades vibrent et les collines murmurent #VisitRwanda 🇷🇼
🎵Zaminamina zankalewa, it’s time for Africa ☺️🎶

[Scholastique Mukasonga @Mukasonga]

Souvenons-nous il y a 31 ans le génocide des tutsis au Rwanda

Les années passent - La mémoire reste

Ntituzabibagirwe narimwe,
iteka na hose turikumewe.

Ne les oublions jamais
Nous sommes avec eux

Twibuke twiyubaka
Souvenons nous d'eux
en nous construisant

#Kwibuka31

[Yolande Makolo 🇷🇼 @YolandeMakolo]

Lessons for the times we are in:

“We want to be Rwandans [not those other ones, the small ones without shame]. The journey we are on is to be ourselves, to live well with others, and do what we have together to do get ahead. “

“It’s hard to be yourself. The same way fighting for this country cost lives. People sacrificed so that Rwanda can be what it is. The path is hard. Funga mkanda. Lazima tupiganie haki yetu. Tuna haki ya kupigania.”
#KwegeraAbaturage

[Louise Mushikiwabo @LMushikiwabo]

https://t.co/DIqWVKUAYL

[Sam @SamanthaTeta]

Last one I promise 😁

I have had this Tiktok sound saved since inauguration 🙈

[Belise Kariza @BeliseKariza]

We got you PK! We will not be quiet anymore! We know who you are to us.
We will not accept idiots to drag Rwanda 🇷🇼 in the mud! Been there, done that. #NoMore

[Inteko y'Umuco | Rwanda Cultural Heritage Academy @IntekoyUmuco]

The Intore dance has just been inscribed on the #UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List, becoming the first #Rwanda-n element to be included. This recognition highlights the exceptional value of this tradition. #IntoreDance #CulturalHeritage #Rwanda

[Louise Mushikiwabo @LMushikiwabo]

Quelle bonne nouvelle en cette fin d'une année riche en émotions, souvenirs et symboles pour le #Rwanda! Nuko nuko l'équipe de @RwandainFrance ! La danse du 31 décembre? 😉

[Sandrine Umutoni @XandrineUmutoni]

Bravo à toi Gaël et merci pour Jacaranda!✨
Un roman qui peut aider à exorciser beaucoup de nos blessures et libérer la parole, pour que nos futures générations puissent mettre des mots sur nos maux.