\nThe talk was centered on the theme \u2018What is the role of Rwanda\u2019s future youth to speed up the liberation journey\u2019. <\/p>\n
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<\/figure>\n{{We spent long time without nationality }} <\/p>\n
Gen Kabarebe said that Rwandans were deprived of their rights since 1959 through murders and oppression meted out on the Tutsi. He said that Rwandans were dismissed from Uganda and forbidden to return to Rwanda in 1982. <\/p>\n
\u201cArriving between Rwanda and Uganda, soldiers of the time stopped us and asked us where we were going. We responded that Uganda government had dismissed us. The Rwanda government challenged us why we did go to Uganda and said that Rwanda is full with no more space for us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Gen Kabarebe said that such contempt was followed by hurting words.<\/p>\n
\u201cA Sergeant soldier stood in front us and said \u2018Uganda and Rwanda hate you, it means God is also going to hate you, \u201che said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey settled us in the swamp separating Rwanda and Uganda around 10:00 am till 22:00 pm standing in water in the river called Umuyanja. We could neither return to Uganda nor enter Rwanda. It means these hours we belonged to no country as we were rejected as refugees and mother land, \u201cnarrated Gen Kabarebe.<\/p>\n
{{The best last option }} <\/p>\n
At the time, hate speeches were spread in Rwanda by leaders comparing the country as glass full of water which couldn\u2019t hold or accommodate any more.<\/p>\n
Gen Kabarebe said that they returned to Uganda and president Habyarimana started negotiations with other countries to host them and grant them nationality.<\/p>\n
They decided to head for forests realizing that they had no other choice.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy wouldn\u2019t I take a gun to fight for having a nationality? Everyone has historical reasons that prompted him\/her to fight for the country,\u201d said Kabarebe.
\nRwanda enemies still exist <\/p>\n
Gen Kabarebe has told the youth that they had chances of having their country adding that many people are seeking to deprive them of available opportunities.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople with behaviors of depriving Rwandans\u2019 chances like those in past still do exist. When you hear FDLR in DRC, Europe, people abusing Rwanda and people proposing punishments to Rwanda; no good achievement by Rwanda is appreciated. They want to decelerate our progress . What do they want? It is Rwanda,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He asked the youth to protect achievements and the country to avoid reoccurrence of the dark past. <\/p>\n
The president of parliamentary commission in charge of foreign affairs, cooperation and security, Mutimura Zeno told the youth that; \u201cthe country must protect its citizens , when you don\u2019t have it you have no protection.The country is like the mother of all Rwandans and grants everything to citizens,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Miss Rwanda ,Mutesi Jolly urged the youth to strive for pride of the country preserving achievements, maintain its security and sacrifice themselves as they can. <\/p>\n
The talks were attended by various leaders including the Minister of Sports and Culture, Uwacu Julienne and the Chief Executive Officer of Rwanda Governance Board, Prof Shyaka Anastase among others.<\/p>\n {Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA) soldiers under the political stewardship of Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) started the liberation struggle with an onslaught on Kagitumba on October 1st 1990, a struggle that ended on July 4th 1994 with the stopping of genocide that had raged on for a hundred days, leaving over 1,000,000 dead. } The Minister […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-26607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26607"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=26607"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=26607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"