Benimana @KalindaMwene
@NKOTANYIFranci2 @AgainstDeniers @RwandaRemembers
🤔
1)Genocide deniers come in the form of descendants of Rwndns directly or indirectly linked with the genocide, but who are of a younger generation living mostly in N. America,Europe &Australia....THREAD
@NKOTANYIFranci2 @AgainstDeniers @RwandaRemembers
🤔
1)Genocide deniers come in the form of descendants of Rwndns directly or indirectly linked with the genocide, but who are of a younger generation living mostly in N. America,Europe &Australia....THREAD
2)from where they try to play the false convert, preaching the reconciliation of Rwandans and decrying a “genocide” which they are not even willing to call by its name...
3)Commemorations are also an opportunity for survivors of the genocide to share testimonies of what they went through with the determination to forge strength....
4) and resilience to rebuild their lives and their communities so that their loved ones shall not have perished in vain....
5)Unfortunately, genocide deniers have also embarked on a mission to hold their own versions of commemorations in live and on-line conferences,...
6)aimed at obfuscating the historical fact of the genocide and if possible ignite tension and discord among Rwandans, especially the youth who are more vulnerable to the online toxic propaganda of these groups....
7)In a despicable mockery of commemoration, these groups often invite and associate with other well-known revisionists from around the globe,...
8)to make pretentious claims, filled with self-aggrandizing false stories about their survival during the Tutsi genocide of 1994....
9)They also use their sham commemorations to advance political propaganda and revisionist ideologies framed in reconciliation messages for Rwandans...
10)These deniers may pretend to be genocide survivors, but they are not difficult to detect due to key features of their rhetoric:...
11)In their sham commemorations they usually digress to undermine the current Rwandan government’s achievements in reconciling and uniting its people...
12)They also hardly ever mention the official name of the genocide they pretend to commemorate, maintaining instead, the use of generic references such as “Rwandan genocide”,...
13)or “the 1994 war and genocide”-- descriptions which fail to identify the target- group in the genocide-- an important piece to the name of the genocide as recognised by the United Nations....
14)On January 26, 2018, The United Nations General Assembly amended previous definitions and designated “7 April, International Day of Reflection on 1994 Genocide against Tutsis in Rwanda”...
14)This designation was aptly defended on the merits that “It captured the historical fact of what happened in 1994--the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda--and left no room for ambiguity”...
15)One of the more vocal revisionists of the 1994 genocide against Tutsis is a Rwandan man by the name Claude Gatebuke, who lives in the United States,Nashville.
16)In the past couple of years, he has held sham commemorations, live and online with his familiar line of “twibuke bose” (commemorate all).He pretends to be a survivor of the genocide, even though he is clearly not one.
17)Gatebuke’s tactic is to present himself as a genocide survivor so that he may gain credibility and then use his platform to disseminate his revisionist agenda framed as a message of reconciliation...
18)Time and again he falsifies, distorts, and relativizes the genocide against the Tutsi in 1994.
Put it simply, Gatebuke does not recognise the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi...
Put it simply, Gatebuke does not recognise the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi...
19)To him the genocide refers to “all deaths which occurred in Rwanda between 1990 and 2000 as revealed in his You Tube conference held on April 25, 2020,last year...
20)Many of the guests invited to this so-called commemoration have direct or indirect links to genocide perpetrators through family connections...
21)A good example is another genocide denier by the name Amiel Nubaha who is based in Queensland, Australia...
22)His father, Froduard Rukeshangabo, also living in Australia, is alleged to have directed mass murder and torture of Tutsi in the Eastern Province of Rwanda during the genocide...
23)But Gatebuke’s background has its own disturbing revelations which would undermine his claims of a genocide survivor, and his credibility to speak on the reconciliation of Rwandans...
24)END
24)END
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
