The UN should apprehend Genocide perpetrators

Editor,It’s a noble thing for world leaders to physically pay tribute by visiting memorial sites. While they well understand the phenomenon of the genocide and are at the global power centre to influence, act and prevent future similar tragedy, they should also follow in pursuit to arrest the culprits at hand.It’s a well known fact that the FDRL negative forces (comprised of former Rwanda armed forces responsible for the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and related war crimes) currently live alongside DRC forces and have intention of attacking Rwanda to accomplish their genocidal plan.This open secret and well known by UN, human rights organisations and others is never pre-empted but left as a looming threat to humanity. Shedding tears without addressing the root cause of the genocide to stop the impending calamity isn’t different from fuelling it.Robert, Arusha, Tanzania****************************I will believe his [Ban Ki-Moon] contrition about his organisation’s utter failure in 1994 is genuine only if he begins to act accordingly. But on the basis of what we see in the Great Lakes, on the strength of his secretariat’s choice of so-called experts (who include well-known deniers and revisionists of that same failure) to inform critical decision-making, allow me to doubt the sincerity of his words.These doubts are reinforced by the fact when I look at those he has surrounded himself with – I see a man who was vocally defending the genocidaires even as they were at the height of their bestial acts now clothed in the role of the world’s premier peacekeeper and morphing into enforcer, though certainly not so much of peace as of war. Mwene Kalinda, Kigali, RwandaReactions to the story, “We failed in Rwanda, says Ban Ki-Moon”, (The New Times, May 24)

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The UN should apprehend Genocide perpetrators