RWANDA GENOCIDE DENIERS
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April 20 2009
It’s very shocking and extremely disturbing that, there are some people
who deny that there was Genocide in Rwanda; there are those who have
been trying hard to spread lies and propaganda and twist real facts
and the truth about the Rwandan genocide; there are those who deny
that, it was planned and executed and about 800,000 Tutsis and some
Hutus were systematically – brutally butchered, in Rwanda, in 1994:
………thousands of children butchered individually, by machete. And
the massacres at hundreds of churches, mostly Catholic churches at
that. Not to mention the systematic gang rapes of Tutsi women and
girls which led the international tribunal to define rape as an act
of genocide when part of an extermination campaign.
The genocide, while it coincided with the civil war and was clearly
driven by the politics around the conflict, was mostly carried out
by civilians against civilians far from the front. There was no
"other side". There were the murderers and their unarmed, helpless
victims. The Guardian April 2009 marks the 15th anniversary of the
genocide in Rwanda of most of its Tutsi population and of many Hutu
who refused to embrace violent extremism.
Yet at the same time, as in virtually every other genocide, denial
is alive and kicking. Here is yet another common thread that binds
the people that suffered through what many consider the three classic
genocides of the 20th century – the Armenians, the Jews and the Rwandan
Tutsis. The bitter and apparently never-ending fight against deniers,
or revisionists, is a common cause among the survivors of all these
genocides, one that will be highlighted in Rwanda in April 2009 as
people from all over the world will gather to mark the 15th anniversary
of the genocide of the Tutsi – Remembering Rwanda 15, or RR15.
If much of the world now remembers the genocide in Rwanda, the battle
against those who deny that genocide is much less familiar though
no less insidious than its Armenian or Holocaust equivalents. The
persistence of Holocaust denial remains a reality everywhere in
the world that anti-Semitism rears its head. In some countries it
attracts elites. In the west it is the preserve of a lunatic fringe,
and usually more an irritation than anything else. But there is
always a well-earned fear that it could explode into something more
ferocious, especially as anti-Semitism and opposition to Israeli
policies sometimes become difficult to distinguish. AllAfrica
Why would any sane person deny such a horror ever
happened? Perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide have been campaigning
hard and spreading lies and propaganda, to gain sympathy; they are
being assisted too, by other perpetrators of genocide in other parts
of the world – like Bosnia. And: some Genocide defense lawyers and
authors are today earning their living through negating the Genocide
that left behind thousands of traumatized survivors.
They can spread lies and propaganda; they can twist and concoct facts;
they can go on denying. But facts are facts. And the real truth is
that: ten years ago, in April 1994, almost a million people were
hunted like animals and raped, slaughtered, butchered and treated in
the most inhumane and horrific ways one can imagine. No denying that:
Genocide did take place in Rwanda in 1994.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
