KWIBUKA I

Remembering the victims, preventing Genocide You look aghast at the peremptory and righteous decrees, laws, regulations and fiats which daily come out of the government decree machine in Kigali, Rwanda and you shake your head at the sheer at the follies des grandeur of it all. You marvel at the shortness of human memory when you look at the strenuous attempts the rulers in Kigali are making to erase the past and rewrite history and you marvel at the breathtaking arrogance of it all. And then, when one has dismissed Kigali's shortsightedness there always comes something more out of Rwanda which makes one to think again. On 26 th September 2019, Rwanda welcomed the first group of refugees arriving in the country as asylum seekers from Libya. These asylum seekers have travelled a traumatic journey to reach the calm and safety of kg, Rwanda. In 2017, the world watched riveted as reports filtered in from Libya of slave markets where South of the Sahara Africans were b...