Prime Minister Dr. Pierre Damien Habumuremyi has stated that the Government of Rwanda will always maintain strength for the National Commission for the Fight against Genocide.
“The government will always support the commission to fight against genocide and its prevention. This will be done in taking care of the genocide survivors in order to rebuild the country,” Dr. Habumuremyi stated.
The prime Minister made the remarks while officially opening the ongoing International Conference held at Serena Hotel under the theme “18 years after the Genocide against Tutsi: Testimonies and Reflections”.
The two-day conference 5th -6 April was organised by the National Commission for the Fight against Genocide .
The President of the commission, John Rutayisire says the main purpose of the conference is to reflect the past and prepare for a bright future mainly for the new generation not to get misled by the wrong history of their country.
Since 1994, the genocide against the Tutsi has been the subject of academic and research publications. The social impact at the individual and family level have however, not been analysed sufficiently.
With limited knowledge on the antecedents of atrocities endured, there are limits to understanding Rwanda’s current society.
There has also been limited assessment of judicial processes at a national and international level aimed at prosecuting and punishing genocidaires. This has further been compounded by the continued denial of the genocide against the Tutsi.
Addressing this will require according more prominence to the voice of genocide survivors and victims’ in all writings if an accurate memory of the genocide is to be preserved.
The objective of the 2012 colloquium in seeking to restore the victims, will delve into existing literature, legal sources and connect threads between structural violence against the Tusti in the pre-genocide era to the genocide committed in 1994 all aimed at aimed at strengthening the literature and seeking ways to handle and utilize existing legal sources.
This conference joins different boards including Ministers, Local government and church leaders with other international organizations together with analysts who will provide different presentations of the history of Genocide like;
-Dehumanisation process and the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi
-Victims in the aftermath of Genocide
-Assessing the legacy of national and international judicial processes
-Preserving memory of the Genocide in the face of negationism.
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