He made the remarks yesterday addressing 250 youth during talks on the preparation of the upcoming 25th commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi.
Gen Kabarebe was responding to a participant who asked why the Government of Rwanda trusts children of genocide perpetrators giving them employment in different government positions like the daughter of Col. Nsekarije.
“No one should carry consequences of parents’ involvement in genocide. A mature person is independent that he/she chooses what to do. No one should be subject to consequences of someone else’s wrongdoing,” he said.
“You should not be judging that child in the mirror of the parent. If you do so, you would not be different from others with negative ideology. It is not right because it offends the child,” added Kabarebe.
Col. Aloys Nsekarije held different positions as the foreign affairs minister and the minister of education.
He died in 2009 several weeks after he was admitted at a hospital in Bruxelles, Belgium.
Nsekarije daughter, Alice Akana fled the country in 1995 to Belgium where she was involved in acts inciting public hatred against Rwanda on Facebook.
She later changed her attitude, returned to Rwanda and joined others to build the nation.
“First of all trust every Rwandan; let him/her lose the trust himself and consider what next based on that. Do so wherever you meet a Rwandan in diaspora or elsewhere,” said Gen Kabarebe.
Gen. Kabarebe said “First you analyze the situation. The fact that the daughter of Nsekarije fled the country early wrote against Rwanda in the media and changed mindsets; why can’t you trust her? She is not alone, there are others (with similar case),” he noted.
Gen. Kabarebe said, aside from the daughter of Nsekarije, there are others who understand the truth about their country and change mindsets.
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