#Rwandan Genocide

[sayruq]

Not surprised that Paul Kagame would do this given the genocide he is committing in Eastern Congo on behalf of Western governments

[cosmicbunnysbluebox]

Ncuti seems to really get The Doctor, even bringing his own deep personal connections to the role with his experience with the Rwandan genocide.

He also said he binge watched the 2005 revival before his audition! I feel so sure he is going to make a fantastic Doctor. I am excited to see the emotions he brings to this role and his performance.

[seohyun0306]

Not surprised that mossad and Israel are once again terrorising an African woman. They’re probably distraught that she’s too old to be given non consensual birth control injections. It’s an undisputed fact that Israel sees African people and countries as hut-dwelling, backroads sub- human terrorist cockroaches but we dragged their Zionist asses to the icj and won and we’ll do much fucking worse if those white demons try that shit with us. Threatening one of us is threatening all of us and making an enemy of one of us is making an enemy of all of us. We refuse to be bullied and intimidated by people who supplied weapons for the Rwandan genocide and who wanted to provide the apartheid government with nuclear fucking weapons. South Africa and Africa as a whole have been victims to white supremacy and colonialism for too long to let any people who get skin cancer at the slightest exposure to sunlight victimise us.

[gently-decaying-flowers]

content warning: mention of genocide/ general political stuff- please don’t read if it stresses you out!

we’ve been watching this documentary in my social studies (i take a class on contemporary world issues rather than history) and the documentary was about the Rwandan genocide

first of all- it was just absolutely horrible, as genocide is- but god i was just thinking like

all this stuff bout how people were ignoring it- refusing to call it genocide- NOT DOING ANYTHING?? like this is happening in Palestine right now.

and it’s just- god today we finished the documentary and i just started crying- it was so so sad. and i felt genuinely disgusted with the way the Rwandan genocide was handled by both the UN and the US.

one day kids are going to be learning in school about how people ignored Palestine, and i hope they feel just as disturbed as i did today.

[dougielombax]

Now.

Let’s make something quite clear.

Just for anyone who hasn’t gotten the message.

No.

You CANNOT compare the deliberate genocide and mass displacement of a people and destruction of their nation and identity to a natural process of change!

Nor is it alike to a culling of the weak through natural selection or evolution or anything like that.

And it certainly isn’t comparable to the changing of seasons or the clearance of old forests or whatever else they may say.

Nor is it akin to a cleansing or redeeming of the land or environment on which it takes place!

Ethnic “cleansing” is nothing of the kind.

It’s barbaric.

(BuT tHEy mAdE tHe DEseRt bLoOm¡)

Get in the bin with that reactionary SHITE!

It is in no way defensible or justifiable.

It is not REMOTELY natural!

Nor is it in any way inevitable!

And it sure as shit isn’t necessary either!

In ANY circumstance!

Anyone who denies this (and/or the occurrence of such atrocities) or tries to handwave or defend it is lying to you, and they KNOW they’re lying.

And there is no other defence for such atrocities outside of this thinking either.

Nobody “deserves” to be subject to a genocide. Whether real or hypothetically.

Whether it’s one that’s actively happening or one that has already happened.

Not now, not then, not ever.

Anyone who tells you otherwise is at best dangerously misinformed, perhaps also lying to you and at worst is already guilty!

Be rid of that shite!

Starting yesterday!

If you can’t or won’t do that, then the only thing you can do is die in ignorance and stupidity. And you will be met with ridicule by your descendants for it.

The same is true for denying that such genocides and atrocities ever happened’

There is NO defence for that shite either!

All that does is bury established history and indisputable facts and provide justification for further tyranny in turn!

Which is also wrong! But that should go without saying!

End this shit! Be better!

Starting yesterday!

I’ll include a few links to articles elaborating on this for clarity.

Also feel free to donate to Operation Broken Silence to help the people in Sudan.

Feel free to reblog this.

[nando161mando]

Share and pass about.

Raids are gunna increase massively for a while.

[404pagenotavailable]

yesterday marked 30 years since the Rwandan genocide. in this 100-day massacre, the Hutu murdered almost one million ethnic Tutsi, along with some non-radical Hutus. this was an ethnic cleansing on Rwanda by the Hutu. the international community did nothing.

yesterday marked six months since Israel declared war on Hamas. in this 184-day (so far) massacre, over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed—1/3 of which were children or minors—70,000 have been injured, and 10,000 are missing. this is an ethnic cleansing of Palestine by the Israeli government. the international community does nothing.

why? why are we letting this happen again? why are we making declarations today about our failure to intervene in rwanda, and yet still sitting back and watching it happen again?

[leftistfeminista]

https://twitter.com/ClaireSurya/status/1773260783763222920

FDLR is the last remnants of the forces that carried out the Hutu Power, Rwandan Genocide. Goma is the capital and largest city of the North Kivu Province in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). FDLR still has influence in the Congo-Rwanda border regions.

FDLR thugs publicly stripped naked and beat a Congolese Tutsi woman in full view of the police.

[t0rschlusspan1k]

In occasion of the 30th anniversary from the Rwandan genocide I couldn't refrain from presenting you with this book I read a couple of years ago. It's a memoir/report by Clea Koff, a forensic anthropologist, who worked on the mass graves of the most important massacres in recent history: Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo.

From Penguin Random House Canada:

Published ten years after the genocide in Rwanda, The Bone Woman is a riveting, deeply personal account by a forensic anthropologist sent on seven missions by the UN War Crimes Tribunal. To prosecute charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, the UN needs proof that the bodies found are those of non-combatants. This means answering two questions: who the victims were, and how they were killed. The only people who can answer both these questions are forensic anthropologists. Before being sent to Rwanda in 1996, Clea Koff was a twenty-three-year-old graduate student studying prehistoric skeletons in the safe confines of Berkeley, California. Over the next four years, her gruelling investigation into events that shocked the world transformed her from a wide-eyed student into a soul-weary veteran — and a wise and deeply thoughtful woman. Her unflinching account of those years — what she saw, how it affected her, who went to trial based on evidence she collected — makes for an unforgettable read, alternately riveting, frightening and miraculously hopeful. Readers join Koff as she comes face to face with the human meaning of genocide: exhuming almost five hundred bodies from a single grave in Kibuye, Rwanda; uncovering the wire-bound wrists of Srebrenica massacre victims in Bosnia; disinterring the body of a young man in southwestern Kosovo as his grandfather looks on in silence. As she recounts the fascinating details of her work, the hellish working conditions, the bureaucracy of the UN, and the heartbreak of survivors, Koff imbues her story with an immense sense of hope, humanity and justice.

I also recommend you watch the video and read the articles and posts I shared earlier on my blog to better understand how this horror came to be:

Rwanda: From colonialism to genocide (documentary + article)

Emmanuel Macron's declarations

Some other book recommendations:

[FR] Maria Malagardis, "Avant la nuit"

[FR] Dorcy Rugamba, "Hewa Rwanda: Lettre aux absents"

Fiston Mudacumura, "Born Hutsi: My Imbroglio"

Thank you for your attention.

[offscreendeath]

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[sayruq]

SOURCE: Shake Hands With the Devil by Romeo Dallaire

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[16thcenturyangel]

The Kigali Genocide Memorial in Kigali, Rwanda.

The Kigali Genocide Memorial commemorates the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The remains of over 250,000 people are interred there. There is a visitor centre for students and others wishing to understand the events leading up to the Rwanda genocide against Tutsi in 1994.

Learn more about the Rwandan Genocide here.

[thoughtlessarse]

The diggers’ hoes scrape the brown soil, looking for, and often finding, human bone fragments. -The women then wipe the bone pieces with their hands as others watch in solemn silence. The digging goes on, a scene that has become all too familiar in a verdant area of rural southern Rwanda, where the discovery in October of human remains at the site of a house under construction triggered another search for new mass graves believed to hold victims of the 1994 genocide against Rwanda’s Tutsi. In the months since, Rwandan authorities say the remains of at least 1,000 people have been found in this farming community in the district of Huye, a surprisingly high number after three decades of government efforts to give genocide victims dignified burials. As Rwanda prepares to mark the 30th anniversary of the genocide next week, continuing discoveries of mass graves are a stark reminder not only of the country’s determination to reconcile with its grim past but also of the challenges it faces in aiming for lasting peace.

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Sounds like the perfect place to send asylum seekers from the UK.

[seohyun0306]

Not to mention the fact that they were ALSO involved in the Rwandan genocide. Enemies of peace. Enemies of humanity.

[bonos-grindcore-sideproject]

War is bad, and it's bad when civilians die in wars, and it's especially heinous when children die in wars. But every war in which civilians die is not a genocide. I despise Netanyahu; he is the Trump of Israel and probably worse because he's not as stupid, and I am not at all happy about how this war is being conducted. But when you use the word genocide indiscriminately, you strip it of meaning.

Here is an internationally recognized genocide. Look at the numbers of people slaughtered and raped over the course of 3 months:

That's all I wanted to say. Thanks. I expect to get reamed out for this but I probably won't respond because I'm fucking mentally exhausted.

Link.

[dougielombax]

Alright.

Here’s an idea.

Stop distorting genocide into something it isn’t.

It isn’t some kind of inevitable natural disaster and it’s certainly NOT the fault of the victims! That is never true.

It is a crime!

An unforgivable crime!

To say otherwise and to try and deny it or brush it under the carpet is equally wrong!

Get in the bin with that shite!