Faith Nyasuguta
The offspring of perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi living abroad have continued to engage in the genocide ideology, government officials say.
Genocide ideology has been described as an aggregate of thoughts characterised by conduct, speeches, documents and other acts aiming at exterminating or inciting others to exterminate people basing on ethnic group.
Despite the cases being fewer among the youth born after the genocide, hate speech and genocide ideology persist on social media platforms largely by the diaspora, according to Jean Damascene who is Rwanda’s Ministry of National Unity and Civic Engagement.
Rwandan Community Abroad and ex-combatants gathered at the Mutobo Reintegration and Demobilisation Centre in Musanze District during which the country’s minister for national unity and civic engagement expressed concerns that some nations continue to protect elements that harbour the ideology.
He said there are some ex-affiliates of the genocidal regime in exile who have opened Internet-based media that they use to continue propagating the genocide ideology.
Hate Agenda Pushed
The founder and former president of Jambo ASBL Placide Kayumba is a son of Dominique Ntawukuriryayo, former Sous-Préfect of Gisagara during the genocide who in 2010 was sentenced to 25 years by ICTR for genocide. He led massacre on the Kabuye hill where more than 30,000 Tutsi were killed.
Liliane Bahufite, a lawyer and member of the Jambo group, is a daughter of Col Juvénal Bahufite who was a spokesperson of the genocidal forces in Bukavu after their defeat.
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