Editor, Refer to the article, “Identify Rwanda with solutions, says Kagame” (The New Times, August 13). As the President says, “Rwanda is small only geographically but large in a sense that it has faced big problems, one of them being losing 10,000 people every day for a hundred days.” This country fell to the bottom of hell during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The killings were only stopped by the liberation soldiers led by Kagame himself. After the Genocide, Rwandans didn’t cross arms to wait for the international community to help them rebuild their country. They had already bore the brunt of international community’s inaction when 10,000 innocent people were systematically massacred every day for a hundred days as the world looked on. Instead, Rwandans from all walks of life rallied and stood together as they rebuilt their nation. These are the kind of solutions the President was talking about at the Leaders’ Fellowship dinner on Tuesday. And that’s exactly why we need the world to identify Rwanda with solutions – not its geographical size. Mutara Intore, Rwanda
