{"id":30308,"date":"2016-11-15T00:41:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T00:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/participants-ofthe-international-course-on\/"},"modified":"2016-11-15T01:00:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T01:00:14","slug":"participants-ofthe-international-course-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/participants-ofthe-international-course-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Participants ofthe International Course on Protection of Civilians learn from the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{On 14 November 2016, participants to ongoing International Course on the Kigali Principles on Protection of Civilians (PoC) visited Kigali Genocide Memorial where they paid respect to the victims of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi and toured different sections of the Memorial to take lessons on how the Genocide was planned and executed.}<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the visit, Maj J Banda, participant from Zambia,  observed that \u201cIt is quite emotional to see how a human being can butcher another human being in this manner, like what happened in the Genocide against Tutsi\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Linking this situation to the Course on PoC, Maj Banda pointed out that from the visit they learnt clearly that PoC must be the core mission of any Peace Keeping Operation. \u201cIf Civilians are not protected this can end up with the biggest victims like what we have seen in this Genocide memorial\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Lauren Spink, from USA said she was very saddened by what they had witnessed adding that &#8220;visiting the Genocide memorial was a moment to reflect on worse things that can happen&#8221;. She noted that to prevent reoccurance of such horrible situations both individual military, police, civilians, NGO\u2019s at the forefront in Peace Keeping Missions have to understand what is at risk if they don\u2019t act in a situation of conflicts. Mrs Lauren Spink further said that UN member countries need to think how the UN can really keep POC in its mindset and not surrounding it with politics.<\/p>\n<p>The one week International Course on the Kigali Principles on Protection of Civilians is being conducted at Rwanda Peace Academy, in Musanze. 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