Denial of Genocide against the Tutsi is a well-funded campaign

Editor, RE: “ITV, Kambanda and Genocide: Fear not even when the media turns witch” (The New Times, July 28). The pattern should be quite clear by now; there is a determined effort in much of the west—at the moment with the UK and its media and other equally important institutions in the forefront—to completely re-write the history of this country with the aim of negating or trivializing the Genocide against the Tutsi, or even outrightly inversing the roles of victims and perpetrators. This well-funded campaign has been out in the open in many other western countries and certain powerful institutions and was particularly driven by certain western political organisations such as the CDI (Christian Democrat International, now rechristened Centrist Democrat International) since even during the Genocide itself. But this movement was quite bipartisan as it included a large number of parties that, like François Mitterrand’s French Socialist Party, also belong to the Socialist International (SI). In other words, the denial and revision of the well-known facts about the Genocide against the Tutsi transcends western ideological barriers (if one can characterise the differences between western Christian Democrats and their Socialist counterparts as being ideological in any real sense, rather than merely convenient empty labels with which to hoodwink naive voters into electing them to state power, when they then proceed to rule as if they were the proverbial Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum). Until more recently, while similarly very active there, this revisionist, pro-génocidaires media, political and judicial campaign tended to be more subterranean in the UK. No more; it is now out in the open and virulently in your face about it, having now seriously compromised some critical state and public institutions in that country. Having overcome even worse and more life-threatening situations, we Rwandans should have no doubt that we shall overcome even these challenges. However, these are also the harsh realities those in charge of our diplomacy need to keep firmly in mind as they develop and refine our global relations. Mwene Kalinda ************************** At first when these bogus Spanish and French indictments and some UN experts’ reports were coming out, most from fellows who had never even been to Rwanda and who we thought could easily be misinformed by some unscrupulous génocidaire characters, we assumed a lot of innocence. But now the trend in the British circles reveal a very serious connivance of the west. Indeed, if such a thing can never be extended to the Nazi, IRA or any other terrorism convicts in their prisons, what don’t we understand? The usual shameless double standards! Donart

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Denial of Genocide against the Tutsi is a well-funded campaign