Percent, starting precisely from 7 April 1994, the Rwanda He was the scene of clash between two ethnic groups in the country: the Hutu and the Tutsi. Cologne first German and then Belgian, Rwanda was devastated by wars of power between the two ethnic groups from the sixties until the elimination of thousands of Tutsi during the “Peasant revolution of the Hutu”.
The Tutsi took refuge in neighboring countries, including Uganda forming the Rwandan patriotic front (FPR) which since the late eighties leads to a series of attacks in the country led by the Hutu government of Juvénal Habyarimana. The truce came with a series of peace agreements, but above all with the UN mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR). But tensions and conflicts left an indelible mark per hundred days. The triggering cause was the missile launched on April 6 against the plane of President Habyarimana, hence the beginning of a real extermination against the Tutsi.
The hutu as well as on numerical quantities they could count on weapons and machetes from China. According to the International Politics Institute, Paris has been accused of having guaranteed political coverage to the Habyarimana regime, of having trained and armed the Rwandese army and the Hutu militias and of having given support to the Gouvernement Intérimaire Rwandais (Gir) later made up to the death of the president and fully considered responsible for genocide.
The accusation also is to have supported the Forces Armées Rwandaises in the face of the advance of the Ribelli of the FPR, as well as that they had offered protection to the material authors of the massacres, through the establishment of a ‘safe area’ on the border with the Zaire of Mobutu.
UN delays and indifference of the international community contributed to the delay of the end of the conflict which ended only on July 4 when the FPR conquered power. In November 1994, the Security Council established the International Criminal Court for Rwanda based in Arusha, Tanzania and over the years 61 convictions and 14 acquittals were issued for the accusation of genocide. However, for a long time this genocide was ignored worldwide. The establishment of the international day of reflection on the 1994 genocide, which previously had as its name International day of reflection on the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, It precisely wants to remember not only the Tutsi, but also most of the moderate hutu who were innocent victims.
“This is the minimum we can do to honor the memory of children, women and men brutally murdered and remember all the victims of this tragic and dark chapter,” said Anatolio Ndong Mba (Equatorial Guinea) on behalf of the African group.
Noa Furman (Israel) said that memory is a responsibility of the international community. The atrocities were committed in order to systematically annihilate the Tutsi. “Remembering the crimes of the past, we express our commitment to prevent them from taking place in the future,” he said.
April 7 is the international day of reflection on the genocide in Rwanda.
