Editor,

Now is the time for Rwandans to pull their boot straps, roll up their sleeves and get ready for even a more ferocious struggle against our detractors who will use all means to frustrate us as 2017 nears.

They will attempt to divide us, apply all sorts of barriers along the way to our vision and make all sorts of accusations against our government and President.

This is the time to look ahead and renew our resolve and re-energise our resilience. We have resisted such evil machinations before and we shall resist them even harder in future.

Abdu

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As the German philosopher Friedrich Nietsche aptly observed, "That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.” These people sponsored a genocide which did not finish us off, though it came awfully close. We have faced down the worst they could throw at us and are now immunized to their poison and their wiles.

As President Paul Kagame reminds us often, we have traversed the steepest and most difficult part of our journey as a nation. The rest of our way is still uphill and certainly still challenging, but nowhere close to what we have already overcome.

If we remain vigilant, we shall be able to deal with any obstacles in our way with the same resolve as we have faced and vanquished even worse perils.

The future really is in our own hands, even if those who godfathered and continue to give succor to the FDLR and assorted nostalgic of identity politics and politics of extermination persist in keeping their genocidal clients in play with the hope that they could unleash them onto the "New Rwanda” tomorrow.

Mwene Kalinda

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