Put more effort in documenting 1990-1994 Liberation struggle

Editor, RE: “Recalling the fierce battles of Ruhengeri” (The New Times, January 8). The only thing that hurts me is the Ministry of Defence not having at least documentaries of some of these heroic war tales. I know that RPA/RPF did not have the means to do so at the time, but the Liberation War should be documented before men and women who fought to end the Genocide against the Tutsi get old. This is the time to think about preserving it. John **************************** Dr Théogène Rudasingwa’s leaving behind a critically injured combatant was so irresponsible and used a lame excuse that the High Command had called him. If by any chance the Chairman of the High Command, assuming he was the one who had called him, could know how Rudasingwa abandoned such a fatally injured soldier, I have no doubt that he could have been severely punished. Was Rudasingwa hurrying to catch a bus or a standby helicopter to leave? No, in clandestine work we travel at night and mainly on foot. So, his ineptitude, his selfishness, his being inconsiderate of others’ suffering, his egoistic tendencies, pathological lying have all confounding effects on his character. His politico-military betrayals of the RPF-RPA during and after our liberation struggle have earned him a 25-year prison sentence. So by a living a dying combatant and rush for a High Command call was no surprise given such a longitudinal temperament. Kanyana

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Put more effort in documenting 1990-1994 Liberation struggle