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Rwanda is proof that nations, like people, can rise from ashes. 1994 left scars the world can never erase. Yet today, Rwanda shines as the safest and cleanest country I’ve walked in. At the memorial, I learned a truth: forgiveness is not weakness, and memory is not revenge. We...

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This video is a painful reminder of where Rwanda came from. To the survivors: we walk with you. Your pain is ours, your resilience is our strength. The journey of healing is long, but you are not alone. To the youth: Rwanda is yours. Guard it. Protect our unity. Defend the dignity and progress that was rebuilt from ashes. Never take it for granted. To the RPF/RPA and President Kagame: you brought a nation back from the edge of extinction. You brought me, my grand parents and my parents back home. you gave Rwanda a second chance at life Thank you will never be enough. To those who committed these crimes: this will forever stand as a reminder that what you did was not conflict, not tribal war, not a civil war and definitely not Hutu-Tutsi conflict but Genocide against the Tutsi. History will never be rewritten. To the children of those perpetrators, scattered across the world from the DRC to Europe and America, who choose denial and distortion: the truth lives on. It lives in memory, in testimony, in history. No lie will ever bury it. To the countries that continue to shield those responsible: we see you. Silence and protection do not erase accountability. To the reporter who produced this Jeff Koinange, MBS Thank you! history will remember this report for years. And as the child in this video says: “May we never see what happened in Rwanda anywhere again. May ‘Never Again’ not remain empty words, but become a promise the world finally keeps.” #Kwibuka32

Robert Cyubahiro McKenna

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Rwanda ... Is Not Choosing Sides in Congo. It Is Preventing Another Genocide. When people talk about the crisis between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, they often start from the map. Borders. Sovereignty. Diplomacy. Rwanda starts somewhere else. It starts from memory. Rwanda has been very clear about one thing: its security cannot be understood as beginning at its borders. Not because Rwanda seeks influence. But because history taught it … brutally … what happens when threats are allowed to grow just beyond them. In 1994, the Genocide against the Tutsi unfolded under the watch of the United Nations Security Council, the most powerful states on earth. They were warned. They did nothing. More than a million people were killed in just one hundred days. And still, nothing was done to stop it. But what is even less discussed… is what happened after. The perpetrators were not dismantled. They were not neutralized. They fled, largely into eastern Congo, reorganized, rebranded, and continued their project. And they have been doing so… for three decades. In 1994, the Genocide against the Tutsi unfolded under the watch of the United Nations Security Council, the most powerful states on earth. They were warned. They did nothing. More than a million people were killed in just one hundred days. And still, nothing was done to stop it. But what is even less discussed… is what happened after. The perpetrators were not dismantled. They were not neutralized. They fled, largely into eastern Congo, reorganized, rebranded, and continued their project. And they have been doing so… for three decades. This is not abstract history for Rwanda. It is lived experience. Between 1994 and 1999, genocidal forces operating from Congolese territory launched an insurgency aimed at finishing what they had started. Civilians were killed. Genocide survivors were targeted. Schools were attacked. Children were separated by ethnicity and murdered. This was not theoretical insecurity. It was existential. Today, many observers argue that the FDLR is weak … that its numbers have declined. But numbers are not the point anymore. The threat has evolved. What we are witnessing now is not the FDLR as a fugitive militia hiding in forests. It is the FDLR as a state-embedded actor. Through the Wazalendo framework, genocidal forces have gained access to weapons, logistics, intelligence, and political protection. They have positioned themselves as the ideological and operational core of a much larger armed ecosystem. This is a system-level threat. And that distinction matters. When Rwanda’s Ambassador in Washington explained this security reality before the U.S. Congress, some rushed to claim it was proof that Rwanda supports AFC/M23. That conclusion is wrong. Explaining a threat is not the same as endorsing a political movement. Security analysis is not political sponsorship. Rwanda is not choosing sides in Congolese politics. It is not seeking to determine governance outcomes in the DRC. And it does not endorse armed groups as substitutes for inclusive governance. Its concern is singular: preventing the re-emergence of a genocidal cross-border insurgency. Reducing this to accusations of “backing rebels” may be convenient … but it avoids the real question: Why are genocidal forces being tolerated, protected, and integrated into state-sanctioned security structures in the first place? We have seen this movie before. In Sudan, militias empowered by the state turned into the Rapid Support Forces — and the country collapsed into civil war. In Ethiopia, reliance on irregular armed groups produced fragmentation and prolonged violence. In Libya, revolutionary militias destroyed the state they were meant to protect. The DRC is now walking the same path. But with one crucial difference: here, the ideological core of this mobilization is genocidal. And Rwanda knows what that means. Because Rwanda rebuilt itself while carrying open wounds, in its own flesh. While reconstructing its social fabric. While choosing reconciliation over revenge. And it did so largely alone. No one came in 1994. No one dismantled the genocidal networks afterward. No one protected Rwanda for the last thirty years. So today, no one can credibly tell Rwanda that it must outsource its survival. Rwanda is not choosing sides in Congo. It is preventing another genocide. And until genocidal forces are dismantled … not explained away, not rebranded, not absorbed … Rwanda will continue to act on the lesson history imposed upon it: “Never again” is not a slogan. It is a responsibility.

Albert Rudatsimburwa 🇷🇼

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