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1) “Iso ni nde?”– The relentlessness of genocide deniers by @LonzenRugira

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2) There is a resurgence of denial of the genocide against the Tutsi, which is gradually morphing into a security concern not only for Rwanda but for the geo-strategic calculus in the region.

3) At the heart of this resurgence is a young, well-educated cohort of descendants of genocide perpetrators – whose political mobilisation revolves around JAMBO ASBL, an organisation of the offspring of genocide perpetrators living in Belgium .......

4) .........but recruiting all over Europe, Australia, the United States, and Canada – who have come of age 27 years after the genocide and are out to cleanse their forebearers of the responsibility for genocide. This much is well understood.

5) Jambo ASBL is committed to preserving the logic of their forebears as a means of concealing individual responsibility under collective self-defence: “if everyone is accused, no one – especially their forebearers – will be held to account.”

6) They interpret justice for the genocide as persecution of a community. In their rhetoric of cleansing their forebearers of criminal and moral responsibility for genocide they invoke the nostalgic past of the pre-genocide period despite claiming that their innocence ....

7) They share this nostalgic desire of returning Rwanda tothe “glorious past.” In this way, they share the political ambitions of political entrepreneurs who have tended tocriminalize the Hutu as a group as a means of accessing political power.

8) They have done this by mobilizing people based on ethnic sentiments and attempting to rally them around a myth of common persecution/suffering by suggesting that what is criminal is being Hutu when, in fact, the criminals are the perpetrators of the genocide and its deniers.

9) In other words, @jamboasbl kids and political entrepreneurs seek to hold the entire ethnicity hostage by conceiving it as a human shield for their private interests – shielding the forebears from criminal responsibility by means of which they access political power.

10) Rather than embrace the ideology of their forebearers, @jamboasbl members should rather embrace the truth as the “currency of forgiveness.” This choice breaks the vicious cycle &commit to a virtuous circle as credible and trusted members deserving the community’s good fortune