UN employees who took part in genocide to be brought to book -Minister Busingye

He revealed this during the commemoration of 64 employees of the United Nations killed during the genocide.

The ceremony took place at the headquarters of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Kigali. It was attended by bereaved families, government officials, UN representative in Rwanda and different diplomats.

Minister Busingye said that Rwanda has walked a long journey and urged everyone to be watchful to avoid whoever is having intentions of sowing divisionism.

“People thought UN headquarters were immune places for refuge. There are people who thought that nothing would happen to them because they worked for UN which we all believed,” he said.

“We know that there are employees of UN who collaborated with Interahamwe hunting fellow workers at their homes to kill them or hand them to killers. We don’t oversee the justice of places where they fled but we shall do everything possible so that they are one day brought to justice,” added Busingye.

UN was accused of failure to stop genocide despite early warnings it had received.

On 11th April 1994, UN withdrew its troops on the peacekeeping mission in Rwanda abandoning Tutsi who had fled to ETO Kicukiro.

The Coordinator of One UN in Rwanda, Fodé Ndiaye has told IGIHE that UN is ready to provide justice wherever there is evidence pinning genocide suspects.

He also expressed solidarity with relatives of genocide victims.

“As we commemorate the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi, my gratitude goes to bereaved families of genocide victims. We associate with you. We are here to commemorate fallen victims and reflect on the journey genocide survivors have walked,” noted Ndiaye.