University students from University of Rwanda in Huye have been urged to make best choices and be careful while using social media as a way towards countering and resisting people spreading genocide ideology through social networks.
The call was made on Tuesday by Dr. Usta Kayitesi, the head of Huye Campus of the University of Rwanda yesterday in a talk aimed at sharing ideas on how to avoid genocide ideology spread through social media.
“You are first of all required to be vigilant since all that glitters are not gold. Let’s be guided by carefulness, learn to make better choices and avoid distraction since we have a beautiful country of which its truth becomes a heavy burden for many people,” she said.
Dr. Kayitesi also reminded students about laws punishing convicts of genocide ideology and requested them to avoid spreading all received message from social networks.
Prof. Francois Masabo who talked about the role of social media in spreading genocide ideology noted that children born in post-genocide period may consider words trivializing genocide as true and requested them to be the first to resist such false information about Rwanda.
“When no one reacts against what is said, it is likely to thrive. We have duties of identifying channels through which genocide ideology is spread and fight against it anyway,” he said.
Some students who attended the talk demonstrated frustrations over genocide denial cast through social media and committed at react against it.
They committed to avoiding trivialization of 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, react against ideas falsifying truth about Rwandan and report genocide apologists.
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