Youths Urged to Take Key Role During the 19th Commemoration

{{The Minister of Youth and ICT, Jean Philbert Nsengimana has urged Rwandan Youths to play a key role during the 19th commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi.}}

Starting April 7th through April 14th this year, Rwandans will hold official 19th genocide commemorate around the country and abroad, to remember victims of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi that left at least a million people dead.

The Minister said, “Youths will be participating in different planned activities like Walk to Remember, will be near vulnerable Genocide survivors by helping them and to clean different Genocide memorial sites across the country.”

The Minister said through the use of ICT, information will be shared during the commemoration period.

“ICT can help us to tell our own story we can use websites, social media like Facebook and Twitter to stay together as a country during the commemoration,” Nsengimana noted.

The 19th Commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi will be marked at Umudugudu level (village) under the theme “Let us commemorate the Genocide against the Tutsi as we strive for self reliance”.

Walk to Remember aims at commemorating genocide in Rwanda and remembering victims of other genocides and mass atrocities, to educate young people about the causes and consequences of genocide and to highlight the role and responsibility young people have to help prevent such atrocities now and in the future;

This will also provide a platform from which the youth of the world can speak out and to make ‘Never Again’ truly ‘Never Again’ by equipping students with necessary tools and understanding how to take a stand against genocide within their communities and abroad.

{Youths at a Previous Genocide Commemoration event}