NORTHERN PROVINCE

The third phase of students set to join different universities and tertiary institutions have arrived at Peace and Leadership Center in Nkumba, for a solidarity camp commonly known as "Ingando”.

Seven hundred students arrived yesterday while six hundred and eighty, including twelve foreigners, had completed one-month training.

Speaking during the function, the Minister in the President’s Office Solina Nyirahaimana said that this is a way of enhancing social cohesion and understanding community and national life that is critical to enhancing citizen participation in streamlining developmental ideas from the youth.

‘’You should understand all historical distortions that led to the disintegration of Rwandan society,’’ Nyirahaimana said
She criticised the past regimes which created social political turbulences as evidenced in the racial and ethnic tensions among Rwandans a situation which climaxed into the 1994 Genocide.

The president of National Unity and Reconciliation Commission Dr. Jean Baptiste Habyarimana said that setting a foot on Rwandan soil and taking a tour of the socio-political landscape from colonial rule to the genocide period is a deeply traumatizing experience which requires working hard to overcome.

He warned students against ideologies of extremism of thinking that one can succeed after killing the other .he cited cases where students have been reported writing in toilets that the Hutu will kill the Tutsi again.

The solidarity camps are a civil education activity that has facilitated smooth reintegration of former returnees, XFAR and provisionally released prisoners back into the community.

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