Talking to RBA, Ndayisaba explained that concerned institutions have raised an alarm against genocide ideology crimes and requested people with such negative behaviors to abandon them as Rwanda prepares for the 25th commemoration of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi.
“We observed that people are more implicated in such crimes during the commemoration period. We call upon people to be cautious and disengage from any connections to divisionism, genocide ideology and be aware that they will be punished,” he said.
Genocide ideology crimes are manifested in forms of undermining genocide and denial, abusive acts and words, destroying properties of genocide survivors and inflaming discrimination among others.
The NURC report on respecting unity and reconciliation principles during commemoration activities indicates that genocide ideology cases reduced by 27% over the past two years from 193 in 2017 to 141 cases in 2018.
225 suspects were implicated in 2017 genocide ideology cases of whom 65 have been convicted while 17 have been proved innocent.
A total of 45 files were closed temporarily, 18 files were transferred to courts while 13 files were definitively closed.
Ibuka president, Dr. Jean Pierre Dusingizemungu has said that the problem of people declining to provide information lingers despite efforts of the judiciary side.
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