I participated in a Café Littéraire where Dr. Hélène Dumas launched 'Sans Ciel ni Terre.' Emphasized youth's role in learning and preserving history. Also met @RwandaGov spokesperson @Yolandemakolo - delightful interaction blossomed to even more thoughtful ideas!
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Powerful message from @ProfPLOLumumba, a dedicated advocate of Pan-Africanism and a proud son of Africa, delivered during today's #Kwibuka30 Conference in Nairobi.
"We can not afford luxury of doing nothing when we know the perpetrators of evil are in the business of planning another evil"
"We can not afford the luxury of being comfortable because even if we sit here, they are those who are planning to visit evil "
"Today we are gathered here to remind our selves that we must never repeat what happened 30 years ago"
"We are sitting here to remind ourselves that it happened in Rwanda and it can happen anywhere"
"Look at Eastern Congo .....and see what is happening...yet Rwanda teaches us as a lesson .........we can rise and tell the different story, the story of never forgetting the pain that visited upon to us but the story of forgiving those who visited pain upon us ......"
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Indian Students from 23 Schools across New Delhi and its surrounding areas who attended our exhibition on 10th April, raised awareness about the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, through art (paintings, music & drama). Our gratitude to them and their schools.
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It was so touching listening to a Rwandan song of #Ndayishimiye Joseph Musinga, being performed by students of Bal Bharti Public School/India, at our yesterday's Commemoration in Delhi,of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.@Unity_MemoryRw#Kwibuka30.Abacu ntibazazima!
🙏 From the remote villages to the cities, from the fields to the halls of parliament, women have not shied away from playing their parts in creating change, shaping our nation's destiny with unwavering determination and courage like no other.
🎙️ MoS @XandrineUmutoni #LesFemmesDebout | #Kwibuka30
You should consider educating yourself more about "Genocide against Tutsi",Emera wige, uwakubwiye ibyo uzanamubaze impamvu hateguwe ama list y'abatutsi bari kuzicwa, hatanzwe amahugurwa ya gisirikare hakanatangwa intwaro ku rubyiruko rw'interahamwe, n'ibindi. #Kwibuka30#Ntumpeho
"AERG ni Umuryango , ni urugwiro,ni Ubuzima...NI BYOSE."-Akamaro ka Famille za AERG na GAERG mu komora ibikomere abana bato nyuma ya Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi mu 1994. @rulinda05 & Fidele Nsengiyaremye #kwibuka30
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What an honour to meet and hear from the formidable Scholastique @Mukasonga today. Her family was among the Tutsi removed from their homes in the 60s and dumped in the desolate region of Bugesera to suffer and die. Most perished in 1992 and 1994.
She was surprised at the success of her first book “Inyenzi”: “We had been so abandoned I had no idea that our story would interest anyone.”
On telling her stories as a way to deal with grief, alone in France after her family was exterminated in 1994: “the pen that asked no questions was my only confidant. The blank page allowed me to release the poison that flowed in me.”
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One can never measure the amount of courage and humanity the @rpfinkotanyi soldiers had to put into their fight against extreme evil during the Genocide Against the Tutsi
… if they had been “Caucasian” they would have had a Hollywood movie about their heroism.
Common sense and humanity prevailed until this very day, yet..
We will never tell enough the horrible crimes girls and women endured during the Genocide.
Twama tubabwira ko Leta yacu yishora mu bintu itazi.
Ehe raba, Urwanda ubu rurasubiye kurungika ambassadeur muri Afrika Y’epfo. Bagira banagure imigenderanire, twe aho turi tuguma twugara imipaka. Tanzania nayo iriko iriyegereza cane Urwanda, ivya SADC muri Congo vyo tube turavyihoza kuko nta kazoza bifise. Ba basoda bacu nabo bariyo nukwibera abana b’ivyangazi nta n’ikindi.
Le niveau de raisonnement de nos diplomates et politiciens iri hasi cane!