People at the Kigali Arena stadium on April 7, 2021 listen to a speech by Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame for the Kwibuka 27 commemoration of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi. PHOTO | AFP
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has blamed some developed nations’ inaction against suspects on the run, and their adamancy in refusing to recognise the genocide official appellation — Genocide Against the Tutsi — for the country battles against increasing cases of denial, revisionism and negation, 27 years since it happened.
Speaking on April 7, at the start of the annual 100-day commemoration of the Genocide Against the Tutsi in 1994, President Kagame said reluctance to call it a genocide started as early as during the killings, and some nations remain reluctant to call it its official appellation despite a unanimous resolution by the United Nations General Assembly to use the phrase “the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi”.
