GASABO - The management and staff of the Private Sector Federation (PSF) Saturday donated Frw 3 million to Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre as they joined other Rwandans in remembering the 1994 Tutsi Genocide that left over one million people dead.

The visit began with a peaceful march, led by the PSF President Robert Bayigamba, to the Gisozi-based memorial site, with placards denouncing the genocide ideology and its promoters.

After they were briefed about the history of the Genocide, the Federation staff laid wreaths on different graves containing remains of over 250,000 victims of the Genocide.

Bayigamba said that the culture of selfishness and divisionism was the cause of the Genocide.

"We have learnt a lesson from this visit that bad leadership characterized by divisionism and hatred which was crowned by selfishness, was the major cause of the Genocide," he noted. He pointed out that many businesspersons were used by the then Government to import machetes and other weapons that would later be used to kill a section of Rwandans, Bayigamba said that the Federation would play a central role in the fight against genocide ideology to promote national development programmes.

"Some people destroyed our nation, but we now need to bring our efforts together and heal and develop it," he added.

The Secretary General of RPSF, Emmanuel Hategekimana, said PSF and IBUKA, the umbrella of Genocide survivors, had launched a project known as ‘Memorial Project’ meant to provide support to Genocide survivors.

"We have already planned with IBUKA to set up a project that will help about 40 families of Genocide widows living with HIV/Aids in Matyazo in Southern Province and other orphans living with in the same area," he said.

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