The best tribute that can be paid to the victims of the Rwandan genocide is to understand the mistakes that the international community made - and not let them happen again.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his wife Jeannette Kagame light a remembrance flame as part of the commemorations of the 30th Anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide at the Kigali Genocide Memorial on April 7, 2024. / Photo: AFP
To mark the 30th anniversary of the killings, Rwanda has held a week-long mourning period. International leaders present in solidarity with Kigali included former USThe scale of death, displacement, destruction and ethnic cleansing in Rwanda is why efforts to prevent genocidal ideologies should never escape the public conscience and should remain entrenched in academic and policy discourses.
Rwanda marks 30 years since the genocide that wiped out a tenth of the country's population in a matter of monthsThis was enabled by an absence of accountability for prejudices and bigotry that was festering in society and contributing to community tensions and possible violence. Notewas an extensively used tool by the Hutu government to justify the massacre of the Tutsi population and its sympathisers.
The BJP government does not endorse genocide against India's minority Muslim population, as was the case with the Hutus against the Tutsis in Rwanda.India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the opening of the grand temple of the Hindu god Lord Ram in Ayodhya, built on the ruins of a mosque, January 22, 2024 .in the 2002 Gujarat riots, in which at least 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed.
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