The commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi is around the corner. To be precise, it’s in a week’s time. This is going to be the 25th commemoration in honour of the over a million lives lost in the Genocide. It has been described as the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the 20th century. However, as Rwandans, especially survivors, prepare to commemorate, others with motives are gearing up to push their sinister agenda, of denying that there was a genocide. Or that there was double genocide. This campaign is led by genocide perpetrators who want to cover up their role and their backers who come draped in all sorts of cloaks; activism, academic scholarship you name it. For instance, an event is scheduled to take place on Monday in the United States at Tarrant Community College (TCC), Northeast Campus, Hurst, Texas. The event will be graced by, among other speakers, Judi Rever, a so-called journalist from Canada, who has hobnobbed with Genocide perpetrators for over 20 years. Her prime mission is to push the narrative that there was double genocide - despite the establishment of the contrary by a UN court among others that there was one genocide and it was committed against the Tutsi. In pushing the narrative, she wants to create a moral equivalence on the events in Rwanda 25 years ago, which will of course benefit the very perpetrators, especially in the eyes of the gullible audiences like one she is scheduled to address today. This should be fought. Like the columnist in this newspaper has so rightly stated, Judi Rever and her ilk have been successfully debunked in the major fora. They have been exposed for who they are. Now they have changed tack. They are preying on unsuspecting members of community colleges to push their narrative. This must not be allowed. Like they were fought and defeated in these major fora, they should be exposed in this new avenue they have taken. It will therefore take everyone, especially Rwandans in the Diaspora, to find them in such gatherings and expose them, or at best, do so before they could intoxicate the audiences. After all, it is not such a difficult task, one needs to point these audiences in the right direction - the rulings by the ICTR, declaration by the UN General assembly and various credible research on the crime of Genocide perpetrated against the Tutsi. .
