SOUTHERN PROVINCE

HUYE — The Commander of the Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) 4th Division, Brig. Gen. Mubarak Muganga, Wednesday, called upon residents of Butare Cell to play an active role in providing for their own security.

Delivering a lecture on the theme: ‘Security of Genocide Survivors, Gacaca judges and witnesses’, on day two of the 15th Commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi, Gen Mubarak said that the role of the local people in sharing information on security threats  is still lacking.

He said: ‘Sharing information on possible security threats enables security organs to operate more effectively and prevent crime. Unfortunately this has been lacking in villages and Cells where crimes have been committed’.

Gen. Mubarak said that the general security situation in the Province had improved tremendously since 2006 and called on residents to sustain this progress through timely reporting of any acts that seek to disturb the peace being enjoyed by the citizenry.

Mubarak said that the country has the capacity to protect its sovereignty. He cited the recently successfully concluded military operation code named ‘Umoja Wetu’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu against the rebel elements of the Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR) as a case in point.

‘Such wars are relatively easy to fight compared to the  fight against  Genocide ideology and acts to do with it requires us to wage a different kind of war in which your role is paramount’, said Gen. Mubarak.

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