EDITORIAL: Lessons from Rwanda’s 1994 genocide
The world owes Rwandans an unqualified apology for enabling and allowing the genocide to occur
08 April 2024 - 05:00
On Sunday, President Cyril Ramaphosa joined international leaders in commemorating the 30th anniversary of Rwanda’s genocide.
On April 7 1994, Hutus, the majority ethnic group in Rwanda, began a 90-day campaign of slaughtering Tutsis, a minority group. The genocide claimed nearly a million lives of Tutsis and Hutu moderates. Most of the victims were hacked to death using machetes and a few were shot with small firearms. ..
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