Chido Nwangwu, Founder and Publisher of USAfrica highlights the lessons from the horrendous genocide in Rwanda over two decades ago
This week, 26 years ago, will remain another collective memorial of the 1994 Rwanda genocide by the same country's Hutu zealots who viciously set upon Rwanda's 1 million Tutsis for the most brutal decimation of an ethnic group within 100 hours.
On Wednesday April 7, 2004, Rwandan President Paul Kagame underlined his country's catastrophe by telling the world "Rwanda should be a good example to learn a lesson."
There are the Twas (Pygmy) who form 1.4%
A third lesson of the domestic slaughter in 1994 in Rwanda is the highlight of the wider bloody history of annual violent bigotry inside Africa by Africans, what I call Africans-on- Africans- violence.
The fourth lesson of the Rwanda genocide is the fact it, again, revealed the nakedness of one of the dirty secrets of African leaderships over the past 60 years: the weak-kneed clause of "non-interference" into the "sovereign" issues in other "member states" of the defunct organization of African Unity (OAU), now the African Union.
The fifth lesson derives from another question: long before and 15 years after the bloody genocide in Rwanda, millions of people still wonder when the looters and dealers masquerading as African leaders will be responsive and sensitive to providing the basic, fundamental justification for the creation of these countries/nations/ states?
