Recently the BBC News Network aired a documentary claiming that the Rwandan Patriotic Front committed war crimes in their invasion of Rwanda from 1990-1994 and during the Genocide of 1994.
The Genocide of 1994 officially only recognizes that Tutsis were the victims of this horrific act. It is also a known fact to the rest of the world that the RPF led by now President Paul Kagame (then a rebel group invading Rwanda), also committed atrocities against the Hutu population of Rwanda.
Victoire Ingabire (Pictured Above) is the public face for such a stand. She came from her relative safety to return to Rwanda to open the political discourse of that nation. Upon stating the obvious - that innocent Hutus were also killed - she was jailed, and after a series of events sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The official narrative of the Rwandan Genocide is nothing short of a crime against the humanity of the innocent Hutu victims whose families are not allowed to officially mourn the deaths of their loved ones within the borders of Rwanda - even 20 years after the horrific days of 1994. To do such would be a crime called "Genocide Denial" and/or "Double Genocide Ideology."
Such "crimes" are the ridiculous grasping of a regime that seeks to control the very thoughts of its subjects. Such "crimes" make independent thinking and human compassion illegal. Such "crimes" should not be supported by the international community, but yet they are. Rwanda is undergirded by the United States and the United Kingdom. There are no signs that this alliance of evil is weakening.
In recent weeks, I have been accused of Nazi Ideology for my above statements by members of the Government of Rwanda. Such claims are laughable, and yet they are tragic. People are dying for stating the truth. I was asked if Nazis were killed in the Holocaust. Such a question is flawed.
Nazis perpetuated the Holocaust against Jewish People. Nazis represented some German people - Not all German people. Some Hutus committed genocide against the Tutsis. This is not a question - this is a fact. All Germans did not commit, nor did they support the Holocaust just as all Hutus did not support the Genocide. Innocent Hutus were massacred in unspeakable numbers just as innocent Germans were killed in devastating numbers.
Do I deny a Genocide? Absolutely Not! I can never fully know the horrors of Rwanda in 1994 because I was not there. But I can know that Rwandans were killed. I can know that all Rwandans suffered to some extent in 1994. I can know that what happened was sinful, disgusting, and tragic.
Until Rwandans themselves - Hutus and Tutsis - can come to this agreement - despite the powers that be, true peace will be but an illusion.
