Editor,

RE: "France’s genocidal legacy in Rwanda” (The New Times, December 15). Why? Because those who don’t ask the French Government to account for its criminal role in the Genocide against the Tutsi see nothing extraordinarily wrong with that behaviour of one of their own in that crime. Note: After all, the continued sheltering from justice of the génocidaires living without being bothered by the law in the United Kingdom and many other countries in the so-called democratic, ‘human rights’-loving Western countries. What does this tell us about their incessant lecturing on human rights, beyond the fact that it is so much empty hot air?

All this underscores, once more, that at the end of the day we will survive, first and foremost, only if we never outsource our survival to anybody else.

Mwene Kalinda