Rwanda In History

Helping the next generation understand where they come from—so they can choose where they’re going.

[Serge Kamuhinda @kamuhinda]

Volcanos visible from Nyamirambo

[Noel Kambanda @NoelKambanda]

Le temps est un allié des génocidaires, mais pas leur ami permanent, surtout en France.

Il y a 24 ans, en 2002, des génocidaires notoires en France avaient organisé un colloque de négation du génocide contre les Tutsi, huit ans seulement après le génocide. Ce n’était ni dans un bar ni dans un cadre rassurant, mais dans une salle du Sénat français.

Le génocidaire Dr Eugene Rwamucyo y avait présenté une intervention niant totalement le génocide contre les Tutsi, tout en accusant les Tutsi d’avoir commis un génocide contre les Hutu. Cela se passait au Sénat français.

Servilien Sebasoni et Alain Gauthier étaient dans la salle. Lorsque Alain Gauthier est intervenu pour rappeler ce qui s’était réellement passé au Rwanda, Rwamucyo aurait répondu que « ce muzungu ne fait que répéter le récit du FPR et n’a jamais été au Rwanda ». Pourtant, Alain Gauthier avait enseigné au Petit Séminaire de Butare entre 1972 et 1975.

Bref, Rwamucyo a passé plus de 25 ans à nier le génocide, que ce soit dans des colloques, des médias ou sur son propre site internet. Finalement, il a été condamné à 27 ans de prison pour son rôle pendant le génocide.

[Noel Kambanda @NoelKambanda]

On June 7, 1993, @rpfinkotanyi received a high-level delegation from Tanzania led by the then Prime Minister, John Samuel Malecela (pictured in the middle with Chairman Col. Kanyarengwe and RPA Commander Maj. Gen. Paul Kagame), accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Defence.

At the time, the Arusha negotiations had reached a deadlock over the percentage-sharing arrangement between FAR and the RPA. President Habyarimana insisted that the RPA should represent 30% while FAR would represent 70%.

The RPA, however, pushed for a 50-50 power-sharing arrangement. After visits to Kigali and Mulindi, both sides agreed on a compromise: 40% representation for the RPA and 60% for FAR.

However, at the chain-of-command level from company command upward, representation would be equally shared — 50% RPA and 50% FAR. Hutu extremists never accepted this arrangement, and Habyarimana later referred to the Arusha Agreement he signed as “a piece of paper.”

The RPA maintained that it could not accept officers from an army characterized by rape, ethnic hatred, and regional domination to overwhelmingly command the new national army. That is why the RPA insisted on equal representation among officers.

Meanwhile, Bagosora wanted the RPA to receive only 10% representation.

[Rwanda In History @RwandaArchive]

🕯️Kansi, Butare

The hatred for Tutsi was taught in families, schools and in the media, by and supported by former government leaders, to the point that Hutu extremists made of all categories of people: small children, teenagers, youths, women and elderly people actively participated in killing Tutsis in barbaric ways such as the one described below in Kansi.
#Kwibuka32

[Rwanda In History @RwandaArchive]

A tribute to staff of @RwandaAgri , linked agencies and projects, massacred during the Genocide against Tutsi in 1994. Thank you @Inkotanyi_Imena . #kwibuka32

[𝗠𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗯𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗶/ARCHIVES 🇷🇼❤️ @Inkotayi_Imena]

#Kwibuka31

Video igaragaza amwe mu mafoto y'abari abakozi ba MINAGRI, imishinga n'ibigo byari biyishamikiyeho bishwe muri Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi 1994.

BAHE IZINA N'ISURA EJO BATAZAZIMA

Source: MINAGRI YOUTUBE CHANNEL

1. UMURYANGO WA UWINEZA Euphraise ndetse n'Umugabo we

[Rwanda In History @RwandaArchive]

Great initiative!!

As we commemorate for the 32nd time, it’s been clear than before that more needs to be done to preserve survivors testimonies, dig deeper into the root causes of the genocide against Tutsi and Teach the world the real history of Rwanda.

[Lonzen Rugira @LonzenRugira]

Important.

What it should have been from the beginning.

[Rwanda In History @RwandaArchive]

@AmbMukantabana @ali_naka @GovWhitmer Memory of over a Million of innocent Tutsi massacred in the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda is a collective obligation. Thank you Ambassador for your tireless efforts and thanks to the leadership and people of Michigan 🙏

[Rwanda In History @RwandaArchive]

@Our_Past_In @RwandaTV @luckyfilmz27 The Rwandan youth we must indeed stand up, own our history and build a better Rwanda. Thank you @Our_Past_In #kwbuka32

[Rwanda In History @RwandaArchive]

Stand up Rwandan youths and learn your TRUE history. Utazi iyo ava ntamenya iyo ajya!! @MutijimaBryon 🙏 #kwibuka32

[Munyakazi Sadate @SadateMunyakazi]

Ubu butumwa twese buratureba

[Ellen Kampire @ellen_kampire_]

Anyone sharing or repurposing @matinyarare's old videos that unfairly attack Rwanda and President Kagame should recognize that he has since changed his position and publicly apologized to Rwandans.

At the time, his views were influenced by "helicopter journalism" and misinformation drawn from biased books and unverified reports.

[Marie Kresbach Kabera ✝️🇷🇼🇩🇪🇮🇱🙌🏽 @MarieKresbach]

@RwandaArchive Beautiful

[Rwanda In History @RwandaArchive]

“Our people will never be left for dead again “ Pres Kagame.

[Blesslink1〽️𝕏 @bless_link]

#kwibuka32 🕯️🇷🇼

[Rwanda In History @RwandaArchive]

🕯️Remember Tutsi couples massacred in the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda. #kwibuka32

[Eric @UsengimanaEric8]

Seeing these couples who were killed during the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi is truly heartbreaking😭

Today, they should have been surrounded by their children, grandchildren, even great-grandchildren, but their lives were taken solely because of an ethnicity they never chose.

May their memory live on.
#Kwibuka32

[Rwanda In History @RwandaArchive]

🕯️Augustin Kayitare #kwibuka32

[𝐌𝐂 𝐑𝐖𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐌𝐁𝐈 @EmmanuelINTORE]

His last words 💔😭 were, "Goodbye, I don't want to die like a dog while I'm a man! I'm back home; better to kill me where the people who knew me will see my body 💔."

This handsome man is a noble man/Imfura Augustin KAYITARE 💝🕊 Son of Nyirasasa Adèle 🕊 and Ladislas Kabisa 🕊 son of Kamanzi of Ngurumbe of Birasamasha of Rwamuhunga.

The genocide against the Tutsi began in 1994, Augustin Kayitare worked in BRALIRWA, and lived in Kicukiro on Gasharu, fled the killers separately and separated from his family so that they would not all be killed, so Kayitare decided to flee to the CND

However, while Kayitare was on the way, he thought about his children and the wife he left behind and felt that he should not leave them because he thought that if he reached the CND, he would be saved, but the family he left behind and being killed would break his heart

So Kayitare immediately cut off and went back to where he came from, but because the killers were chasing him everywhere, he had to hide in different houses of his neighbors and all those who hid him agreed only if he paid them💰😭.

After getting the money, he had set up and no one could hide him again without paying him. KAYITARE thought about all the neighbors' kitchens where he had been hiding in for weeks and finally told them:

"Goodbye, I don't want to die like a dog while I'm a man! I'm back home; better to kill me where the people who knew me will see my body 💔."

So Augustin KAYITARE came out of hiding and returned to his home😭

When he arrived at his home, the INTERAHAMWE from Gatenga who were building a house for him, immediately attacked him on the night of April 25, 1994.

The notorious murderer ZAÏRWA who was leading the attack immediately told Kayitare that the only chance he gave him was to pray.

So Kayitare Augustin knelt down and prayed. When he was done, the murderer ZAÏRWA immediately shot him several times in the head, causing his brain to explode (it came out)😭😭😭.

The body of Kayitare Augustin🕊 rests in the Kigali Genocide Memorial located in Gisozi🙇🏾🕯💐

When we also remember Kayitare Augustin who was killed on that above mentioned day, we do not forget his mother, the great Umuganzu✊🏾 Adèle Nyirasasa 🕊✨💐who was tortured on April 12, 1994, in Mukarange where she was hiding in the church💔🙇🏾🕯

Kayitare's wife, Valérie Nyirabagenzi🕊✨💐had survived the genocide against the Tutsi but also died in 1996🙇🏾🕯

However, the Kayitare family did not disappear as The killers wanted because there were 5 children of Kayitare including Joël Murenzi💝Kayitare Olivier💝Ingabire💝Genereuse Uwimbabazi (Fillette)💝and Patrick Nshimyumuremyi💝who survived, are living well and peacefully 🙇🏾✊🏾

🛑 Kindly stay here by clicking #FOLLOW on @EmmanuelINTORE so that we can share more stories that remind us our imfura who left us without choosing it.

#Kwibuka32 #TwibukeTwiyubaka #Imfura

[𝗠𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗯𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗶/ARCHIVES 🇷🇼❤️ @Inkotayi_Imena]

#Kwibuka32

GIVE THEM NAMES AND FACES SO THEY ARE NEVER FORGOTTEN FOREVER

BAZIGA Germain (10 years old) and his sister BAZIGA Antoinette (5 years old), children of BAZIGA Eli from Nyanza of Butare.

During the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, their mother fled with them to her family in Gitwe. On April 25, 1994, they were killed by Interahamwe, the same day UWASE Antoinette was born.

They were killed alongside their younger sister UMUTONIWASE Henriette (4 years old), their mother, their grandmother, and many other Tutsi.

They were murdered simply for being Tutsi.

Why were even infants targeted?

The Genocide against the Tutsi was driven by an extremist ideology aimed at completely eliminating Tutsi people.
Infants and children were targeted because they represented the future of the Tutsi community.

Remembering them is a duty to humanity so that such hatred never happens again.

📷 Source of picture: REMEMBER GENOCIDE AGAINST TUTSI 1959–1994 (Facebook)

[Rwanda In History @RwandaArchive]

Today almost 70% of Rwandans are below 30 years old. In this arena more than 90% were the youth, walking and lighting the light of hope in remembrance of over a Million Tutsi killed in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

Today, as the youths are taught the real history of Rwanda which is about unity, uniqueness, heroism and resiliency, the country is making strides in development, security and leadership, inspiring the whole continent and the world at large .

#TheNewRwanda 🇷🇼

[Rwanda In History @RwandaArchive]

President Kagame who personally lost family relatives in the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi, and who led the campaign to stop the genocide, took the lead in the reconciliation process by:

- Restoring dignity to survivors,
- Initiating reconciliation programs in communities and even prisons which saw tens of thousands of Genocide convicts confessing killings they committed, locations of mass graves, and publicly asking for forgiveness before survivors and whole communities.

In his words the President once said: “If hatred , segregation had failed, we needed to try another thing..(reconciliation and unity)”

Today Rwandans are UNITED and RESILIENT 🙏

[Cyubahiro Wa Bucyana🇷🇼🇺🇬🇺🇸🇨🇩 @WaBucyana]

Afande Rugabo

[RUGWIRO 🥷💻 @RugwiroParfait]

This is very painful! 💔 #Kwibuka32

[Founder of GIB farm (Albert) @MANIRAFASHAAlb2]

Genocide Never again
#Twibuketwiyubaka