Some genocide stories about Rwanda are unclear perhaps due to either the authors are misled or have the intention to cover-up perpetrators who are likely their best friends.
While genocide deniers mostly based overseas continue distorting historical facts of the 1994 genocide,the Rwanda National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG) hasn’t been at rest.
Three years ago, CNLG formed a team mandated to denounce any publications misrepresenting the genocide’s reality including films like that of Hotel Rwanda by Paul Rusesebagina whose negative role in the genocide is confessed by many yethe is portrayed as a savior in the film.
Progress has been registered yet there are many distorting articles about the genocide history.
Paul Rutayisire a lecturer at the National University of Rwanda noted that it was quite hard for the real war victims to write their experience immediately after the war since there were still adopting to post genocide survival.
“This is where the militias took advantage and mislead the world about the genocide that’s why there are many distorting publications circulating the western world,” he remarked.
CNLG works with various organizations globally supportive of promoting truth about the events of 1994 war. The commission has also been hosting scholars and academicians brainstorming on how to rectify the wrongly recorded history.
The commission together with Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Centre (IGSC) met for one day international conference under the theme effects of Tutsi genocide on research in Africa.
Among the IGSC members Wandia Njoya a senior lecturer in literature and French at Kenya’s Daystar University, highlighted that Rwanda should invite more Africans to visit the country in order for them to learn more about the war’s history especially from the victims. The aim is to discourage similar fighting since the continent is known to have ethnic conflicts which might result to genocide.
Rutayisire and Njoya agree that the true story about Rwanda’s genocide should be preached out to the world since it did not only weaken the credibility of deniers but also inspired peace particularly in warring zones.
Officiating at the conference the minister of state in charge of primary and secondary education Mathias Haberamungu commended the interaction of CNLG and IGSC adding that the government had a policy to ensure basic quality education for all Rwandans as a means to prevent the recurring of similar atrocities, and to facilitate the critical thinking and indispensable challenge the crucial problems left out by the war against Tutsi.
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