UK needs to distance itself from genocidaires

Editor, Meantime the British have just written a sequel to the revisionist ‘Untold Story’ by arresting a senior Rwandan military officer on a fictitious Spanish indictment claiming that the Rwandan Patriotic Army was responsible for the Genocide against the Tutsi in its “bloodthirsty quest to create a Hima-Tutsi Empire with the assistance of their American ally!”

Thursday, June 25, 2015
Hundreds of protesters outside the UK High Commission offices in Kigali, yesterday, demanding the release of Gen Karenzi Karake. (Doreen Umutesi)

Editor,

Meantime the British have just written a sequel to the revisionist ‘Untold Story’ by arresting a senior Rwandan military officer on a fictitious Spanish indictment claiming that the Rwandan Patriotic Army was responsible for the Genocide against the Tutsi in its "bloodthirsty quest to create a Hima-Tutsi Empire with the assistance of their American ally!”

And the British Government, which continues to protect notorious génocidaires like Dr. Bajinya, has allowed their public media house, BBC, to be turned into the new RTLM-Kangura platform for génocidaires and their widespread network of allies.

This is not a war London can ever really win. More than that, in jumping into bed with génocidaires and adopting their cause, the United Kingdom has just lost any shred of honour. One wonders for what purpose.

Mwene Kalinda

Reaction is made to the editorial, "We should never relent on telling the truth about the Genocide” (The New Times, June 23)