Rwandan President Paul Kagame has expressed gratitude to fellow African nations for extending their support during Rwanda's difficult 1994 genocide which saw the killing of nearly one million people in just three months.
Wallace Ruzvidzo — Rwanda n President Paul Kagame has expressed gratitude to fellow Africa n nations for extending their support during Rwanda 's difficult 1994 genocide which saw the killing of nearly one million people in just three months.
Zimbabwe also fully participated in investigations after DNA tests on a body buried in the country in 2006 showed that it was that of wanted Rwandan fugitive Protais Mpiranya. "Today, we also feel a particular gratitude to all the friends and representatives here with us from around the world. We are deeply honoured by your presence alongside us on this very heavy day.
He thus said African nations' politics should never be based on ethnicity or religion as in the past."First, only we as Rwandans and Africans can give full value to our lives. After all, we cannot ask others to value African lives more highly than we ourselves do. That is the root of our duty to preserve memory and tell our history as we lived it.
"For that reason, our politics is not organised on the basis of ethnicity or religion, and it never will be again," he said. "Throughout history, survivors of mass atrocities are always expected to be quiet, to censor themselves, or else be erased and even blamed for their own misfortune.
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