Column - On 7th April 2024, Rwandans and the whole world commemorated, for the 30th time, the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. On that day, the government of Rwanda received many solidarity messages from around the world.
On 7th April 2024, Rwanda ns and the whole world commemorated, for the 30th time, the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. On that day, the government of Rwanda received many solidarity messages from around the world. While most messages were appreciated by Rwanda ns, who welcomed their enhanced moral clarity on the terminology, one controversial message created a storm on social media.
The United States stands with the people of Rwanda during Kwibuka 30 in remembering the victims of genocide. We mourn the many thousands of Tutsis, Hutus, Twas, and others whose lives were lost during 100 days of unspeakable violence.-- Secretary Antony Blinken First, according to the 1948 Genocide Convention, genocide is a crime committed"with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such".
Third, the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda was also recognized by the UN. This crime was first recognized by the Security Council, through Resolution 2150 of 16 April 2014, and then recognized by the General Assembly in a Decision of 26 January 2018 and a Resolution of 20 April 2020, in which the General Assembly" 7 April as the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda".
Actually, Secretary Blinken had understood it very well when he tweeted, in July 2022, a message about the Holocaust Remembrance, informing that President Joe Biden, while in Yad Vashem, had"laid a wreath to honor the memories of the 6 million Jewish people who were killed during the Holocaust", without feeling the need to add"Germans, Polish, Catholics and others".
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