Kagame warns; nobody will take Rwanda back to 1994 Abyss

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has warned Rwandans are strong enough to fight anyone harboring intentions of killing them again.

“I inform all Genocidaires and their supporters out there that they will never ever take Rwanda back to the abyss of 1994,” he said.

Kagame was speaking today at Gisozi Genocide memorial site in capital Kigali, during the 21^st commemoration of the Genocide against Tutsi.

Gisozi Genocide memorial site is home to over 25,000 bodies of Tutsi who were killed in the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi, executed in a 100-day slaughter.

Kagame, who was flanked by his wife, Jeannette Kagame, warned Rwanda’s detractors that; “This country has changed. It has changed for good and forever. We are a people who give ourselves dignity.”

Rwandans are mourning today. The whole country was silent at midday-local time, as they took a minute of silence to commemorate over a million Rwandans who perished during the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi.

Kagame told mourners that remembering their loved ones is: “honoring the respect they deserved.”

The President reminded Rwandans to never give up or let anything stand in their way, saying that doing so“would be to dishonor the lives we honor here today.”

He said that Rwandans were hunted down and killed by those with whom they were supposed to share equal rights, yet the World watched unconcerned.

The President wondered how the World still treats Genocide fugitives with a great deal of hospitality. “The World offers a V.I.P protection to Murderers of our people, they justify them saying the killers have a legitimate political reason” Kagame cautioned

“Genocide fugitives are treated as untouchable VIPs in some European countries.” Kagame reminded mourners that today, hunting down to kill is no longer easy but it is done in the form of denial and degrading survivors.

Executive Secretary of the National Commission for the Fight against Genocide, (CNLG) Jean Damascene Bizimana, told KTPress that this year’s commemoration focus is to educate Rwanda and the world against genocide denial and divisionism.

President Kagame also mentioned the BBC’s ‘Untold story’ that came as an obvious denial of the World’s known Genocide against Tutsi.

It is the most recent BBC’s documentary that blamed the Tutsi for starting the massacres. Media and Communication experts throughout the World and the Britain parliament condemned the Documentary despite being released by ‘the British Broadcasting Corporation’ (BBC)

Institutions, countries and individuals both within and outside Rwanda have denied the genocide, portraying double standards and calling it a civil war.

Kagame warned that, “We were bruised but we are still standing and we are not going anywhere.”