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Rwandan "GENOCIDE"

7 April – 15 July 1994

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF REFLECTION ON THE 1994 GENOCIDE AGAINST THE TUTSI IN RWANDA

The World Must NOT Forget!

Scholarly Estimates:  Around 500,000

to 662,000 Tutsi Deaths

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President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame 

30th Commemoration - Full Interview

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President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame 

Honors Victims and Survivors on

29th Commemoration

" . . . the Spirit of oneness to give us hope for

a better future . . . "

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'Genocide denial is a dangerous and deliberate attempt to block the truth'

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30th Anniversary
International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

7 April 2024

Secretary-General's Message for 2024

"On this solemn day of remembrance, let’s pledge to stand as one against all forms of hatred and discrimination."

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On this day in 1994, and for the nearly 100 days that followed, one million Tutsi children, women and men were killed by their fellow Rwandans.

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Families turned against families, friends became foes, and a dark spirit of intentional and brutal violence engulfed a nation.

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We will never forget the victims of this genocide. Nor will we ever forget the bravery and resilience of those who survived, whose courage and willingness to forgive remain a burst of light and hope amidst this dark chapter in human history.

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This year, we remind ourselves of genocide’s rancid root: hate.

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To those who would seek to divide us, we must deliver a clear, unequivocal and urgent message: never again.

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We can draw a straight line between the senseless slaughter of one million Tutsi — as well as some Hutu and others who opposed the genocide — and the decades of hate speech that preceded it, enflamed by ethnic tensions and the long shadow of colonialism.

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Today, around the world, the darkest impulses of humanity are being awakened once more by the voices of extremism, division and hate.

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On this solemn day of remembrance, let’s pledge to stand as one against all forms of hatred and discrimination.

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Let’s ensure that the acts that began on April 7, 1994 are never forgotten — and never repeated. Anywhere.

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— António Guterres —  

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Food for Thought:

If the peaceful Families of Humanity Around

the World are NOT the ones committing

crimes of genocide . . . then WHO ARE

the lawless, slaughterous killers

of innocent Humanity?!

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29th Anniversary of Commemoration

‘It can happen anywhere’:

United Nations General Assembly

Reflects on Rwandan Genocide

7 April 1994: The start of The Rwanda Genocide

14 April 2023

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“We are together to mourn the more than one million children, women, and men who perished in 100 days of horror 29 years ago,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

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“We pay tribute to the resilience of the survivors [and] recognize the journey of the Rwandan people towards healing, restoration, and reconciliation. And we remember – with shame – the failure of the international community. The failure to listen and the failure to act.”

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In April 1994, decades-long intercommunal tensions and clashes unfolded before the world’s eyes into genocide, as Hutu leaders led a deadly campaign against the Tutsi. The bloodshed unfolded, despite the presence of the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda and despite the General Assembly’s unanimous adoption of the Genocide Convention in 1948, which defines genocide as a crime under international law.

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“The killings did not start spontaneously,” Mr. Guterres said. “They were carefully planned long in advance and executed deliberately and systematically; it was premeditated murder in broad daylight.”

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A generation since the genocide, “we must never forget the dangers posed by the fragility of civility in all societies; it precedes and promotes violence”, he cautioned.

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on the 1994 Genocide Against
the Tutsi in Rwanda

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Crucial Question?!

After the Rwandan Genocide, has the World Learned its Lesson?

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The heinous, horrific crime of

"Genocide" is yet occurring

around the world in

the 21st Century!

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Although the "Rwandan Genocide" occurred

twenty-eight years ago, the world - young

and old alike - must understand the 

serious consequences of 

committing such a heinous, horrific

"Crime Against Humanity!"

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Now, in a new era wherein life seems to be

quickly passing with a tech-driven pace

as though life itself is imprinted with

a new adage, "here today, gone

tomorrowturn the page and

forget!"  But the reality of

"GENOCIDE" is never 

forgotten to surviving victims! 

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Nations of the world must not consider the "Rwandan Genocide" an event of the 

past to be viewed only in 'black and 

white photos' as though it is now

a part of History 

to be conveniently forgotten. 

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The Rwandan Genocide is included

in a list of genocides which tells of

numerous genocides in history:

thus, informing the world of slaughterous, brutal attacks intended to destroy the 

norms of humane existence. 

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Survivors of genocidal onslaughts are undoubtedly traumatized

with tremendous horrors and atrocities which are seared into the mind,

body and soul of each victim. 

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The Rwandan Genocide and Indifference!

Following Quote Excerpt Courtesy, Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.N. Sergiy Kyslytsya Remarks at U.N. General Assembly Emergency Meeting 07 April 2022

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" . . . Let me now once again refer to the commemoration of one of the darkest pages in recent history.  The 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.  On this day of grievances and bearing its own tragedy of thousands of Ukrainians killed by the Russian invaders, Ukraine stands together with Rwanda. And calls [to referendum] our pledge to never forget and to never allow the recurrence of Genocide which was the result of the international community's indifference.

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To those of you who for these or another reason opt today to keep being a bystander - to abstain, let me quote Elie Wiesel addressing President Clinton in 1999 talking about The Perils of Indifference:

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"Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten. The political prisoner in his cell, the hungry children, the homeless refugees -- not to respond to their plight, not to relieve their solitude by offering them a spark of hope is to exile them from human memory. And in denying their humanity, we betray our own."

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The genocide in Rwanda was largely due to the indifference of the World's community when the U.N. did not respond to warnings in the U.N. Security Council and in General Assembly a year before the tragedy which we commemorate exactly on this day - on the 7th of April.  Today in the case of Ukraine, it's not even a year - because the tragedy is unfolding right now before our eyes.  In a couple of minutes, you will have a chance to prove that you are not an indifferent bystander.  All you need to do is to press the "Yes" button, and to save the Human Rights Council and many lives around the World and in Ukraine.

 

On the other hand, pressing "No" means pulling a trigger and means a red dot on the screen. Red is the blood of the innocent lives lost.  And this image of the red bloody dots on this screen will stay with you and all of us as long as memory does not fail us. Think about it.  Thank you."

See  Full Text of Elie Wiesel's "The Perils of Indifference"  

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GLOBAL REMINDER:

Perpetrators of the "Crime of Genocide"  

are eventually administered the fullest extent of punishment in accordance

with "THE LAW!"

The identity of any Nation, group [and/or] 

individual who commits, enables

[and/or] condones genocide 

is permanently recorded in the

​History of Humanity on Earth.

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The "Crime of Genocide"

must be permanently eradicated!

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Learn more about the

Rwandan Genocide

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Make Sure to Also Visit:

Kigali Genocide Memorial

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If you’ve missed the work of EPACHA in its Phase I duration, please be encouraged to click on the below web links.

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Sincerest Thanks are Extended to http://archive.org/web/ for having made possible an archived viewing of

 

EPACHA Foundation’s entire volume of its Phase I web pages:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180321225044/http://www.epacha.org/Pages/Home_Page_BkUp3.aspx

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Complete List of EPACHA - Phase I web pages:

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https://web.archive.org/web/20180321224129/http://www.epacha.org/Pages/Site_Map_List_of_EPACHAs_Web_Pages.aspx

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