{{Police officers serving under the UN Mission for Stabilization in Haiti (MINUSTAH) mandate, on Sunday marked the 19th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.}}
The commemoration event held at the Rwandan base in Jeremie was also attended by friends of Rwanda in the Caribbean nation, UN staff, local leaders and clerics.
Currently, there are 160 police officers in Haiti under Formed Police Unit (FPU).
Speaking at the event, the contingent commander, Chief Superintendent (CSP) Desire Twizere, thanked all those who turned up to join Rwandans to remember over one million innocent lives killed in only a-hundred days.
“Remembering is an obligation,” CSP Twizere stated.
“The tragedy caused us pain, and this was all due to bad politics by bad politicians and bad leaders. Bad politics led to loss of value and culture and the tragic situation of 1994 was inevitable,” he noted.
He said that Rwandans have moved on to change the past bad politics that caused the genocide, and to ensure that such an inhuman act doesn’t happen again.
He outlined infrastructure, education, health, investment, unity and reconciliation, energy, agriculture, good governance as areas where the country has made great development strides in the last 19 years.
He said that Rwandans are committed to find solutions to problems they face.
The 19th anniversary started with a “Walk to Remember” as Rwanda, UN and Haitian flags held at half-mast to pay tribute to those who perished in the Genocide.
{RNP peacekeepers in Haiti in a walk to remember during the 19th commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi }
{UN staff and local leaders in Haiti also attended the anniversary}
{Friends of Rwanda in Haiti also joined the Rwandan peacekeepers to commemorate the Genocide}
(story & Photos by RNP)
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