The Rwandan ambassador to Ghana, Mrs Rosemary Mbabazi, has known as on African leaders to attract classes from the nation’s genocide expertise and decide to unity and justice on the continent.
She mentioned the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, has for the previous 31 years held the nation collectively by inserting unity above every part else.
“All the time keep in mind that together we’re robust however divided we will all fall. Rwanda descended into the abyss of genocide beexplanation for division,” she careworn.
Talking on the thirty first anniversary of the 1994 genocide towards the Tutsi in Rwanda held in Accra on Monday, she mentioned Rwanda and the world stood in solidarity to recollect the victims of this heinous crime.
It’s a 100-day interval put aside to replicate on the happenings through the genocide often known as Kwibuka in Kinyarwanda and begins from April 7 for 100 days to July 3.
It’s an occasion held in honour of the reminiscences of the victims and likewise replicate on the previous in order to chart a path for the longer term.
Mrs Mbabazi mentioned it was to additionally honour victims of the genocide and to elaborate on concepts to assist stop related atrocities from taking place once more on the planet.
“The seeds of discord sown by colonialism in our society had been watered to flourish for over six a long time. We’re conscious that undoing this heinous ideology might take much more effort however we’re decided to by no means reflip to the historical past that made the genocide towards Tutsi doable,” she famous.
The Resident Consultant of United Nations Growth Programme to Ghana, Mr Niloy Banerjee, mentioned a rustic torn by division may heal by means of justice, mutual love and collective motion.
He said that wounds of the previous create hatred, nonetheless healing doesn’t imply forgetting and sometimes holding Remembrance Day was important to honor these reminiscences.
“Rwanda rose out of the ashes. Once I take into consideration international locations turning round, rising from the ashes and, popping out of that brutal bloodbath. I’m so happy with Rwanda,” he mentioned.
BY CECILIA YADA LAGBA
