{"id":36483,"date":"2017-12-11T16:12:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T16:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-on-how-rpa-protected-civilians-stopped-the\/"},"modified":"2017-12-13T16:15:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T16:15:45","slug":"kagame-on-how-rpa-protected-civilians-stopped-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-on-how-rpa-protected-civilians-stopped-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame on how RPA protected civilians, stopped the genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kagame was speaking in an interview ahead of opening the \u2018Campaign Against Genocide Museum\u2019 slated on Wednesday 13th December.<\/p>\n

Located at Kimihurura in parliamentary building, the museum shows the history of Rwandans\u2019 bravery in putting an end to the genocide, saving lives of people as well as liberating the country.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the history of liberation struggle, the head of state said that on 7th April 1994, he ordered the troops to stop the genocide and protect themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe order which came the next day was not only to protect themselves, to split so that they are not all under one heavy attack while in one place, but split for two reasons or more; one was that the force had to cross and go to the Amahoro Stadium where there were already people taking refuge and were being threatened. In fact they had almost under attack, so that force had gone to protect those ordinary people who had fled from that place,\u201d he said <\/p>\n

Even though there had been UN force around the area, Kagame said they weren\u2019t going to do much or they were overwhelmed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were requested if possible to join up the UN force that was at Amahoro Stadium to protect people who were fleeing and running into the stadium as well as fighting to protect themselves,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile he explained that there were two companies from which one went to protect people at stadium and another one continued holding the ground by protecting people from outside as well as those who were on their way heading to stadium.<\/p>\n

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Reports say that UN troops that were deployed in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi failed their mission of protecting civilians who were being killed, but left them to the mercy of killers.<\/p>\n

Speaking about UN troop\u2019s failure, Kagame said that the first reaction was to pull out their forces.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know the UN had come here to do what, I wonder whether they were pulling out because they had achieved what they had set out to achieve from the beginning, which was not the case or they were really giving up on the situation and they were saying this is impossible to deal with and therefore we are doing nothing here, let\u2019s go,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said the gesture informed Rwandans that \u2018We are there for ourselves and we are there on our own\u201d<\/p>\n

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President Paul Kagame has said that he ordered former Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA) troops to stop the genocide that was being committed against the Tutsi as well as ensuring that they protect themselves against former government\u2019s militants from shooting on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36483","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36483"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36483"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}