{{The Inspector General of Namibia Police Force, Lt. General S.H. Ndeitunga visited Gisozi Genocide Memorial centre on March 2 to pay tribute to over a million Rwandans who were killed during the 1994 Genocide perpetuated against the Tutsi.}}
Lt. General Ndeitunga, who is in the country to attend the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) which starts on Monday, laid a wreath to a mass grave that contains over 250, 000 Genocide victims, majority who were killed in Kigali.
“We have been hearing of the horror that happened in Rwanda where over a million innocent lives were murdered in cold-blood in a hundred days and it’s an opportunity for me to witness what took place to our sister country,” Lt. General Ndeitunga said.
“It’s a good experience to compare with what happened in Namibia during the German colonial era and these are incidents that we should ensure they never occur again on the African continent,” he added.
More than 100, 000 people are said to have been killed between 1904 and 1907 when Namibians, who were revolting against the German colonial rule, were defeated and driven to the desert where others died of thirst and hunger.
He praised the Rwandan government for honoring those who lost their lives, for reconciling and uniting Rwandans and for transforming the country that was that was left to ashes by the Genocide regime.
This, he said, is a leaf his government should emulate to preserve remains of those that lost their lives at the time.
RNP
Leave a Reply