Our Duty Never to Forget What Happened in Rwanda in 1994
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Very few people who don’t understand the history of ethnic tensions in Rwanda and the surrounding regions couldn’t have seen what was to come after the Presidential jet carrying Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira was blown off the sky as it approached the airport in Kigali.
That event exactly 15 years ago was the catalyst to the worst crime on humanity that most of us have witnessed in our generation. In fact, the assassination of the Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi is just one aspect of a deep rooted and historic conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi people of Rwanda.
