Rwanda's ambassador to bring legally enforced history to Sonoma State University
March 23, 2014
by Ann Garrison
KPFA Evening News, broadcast March 22, 2014
KPFA Evening News Anchor Cameron Jones: Rwanda's U.S. ambassador,
Mathilde Mukantabana, is on her way to Sonoma State University to give
a talk titled "Rwanda 20 Years After Genocide" this coming Tuesday,
March 25, as part of the university's Holocaust and Genocide Lecture
Series. KPFA'a Ann Garrison was not free to work on today's news but
she asked KPFA to note that the official history that Rwanda's
ambassador will present is the "genocide against the Tutsi." "Genocide
against the Tutsi" is the constitutionally codified and legally
enforced description in Rwanda, where it is a crime to say "Rwandan
Genocide."
Rwandan and Western newspapers commonly report that as many as a
million Rwandans, mostly Tutsis, were killed in the genocide; but the
1991 Rwandan census reported that fewer than 650,000 Tutsis lived in
Rwanda at that time, and the Ibuka Tutsi survivors' group claims that
300,000 Rwandan Tutsis survived. The Rwandan government has never
disputed either figure, and if both are correct, then the majority of
a million dead must have been members of Rwanda's majority Hutu
population.
The 1991 Rwandan census reported that fewer than 650,000 Tutsis lived
in Rwanda at the time of the Genocide, and the Ibuka Tutsi survivors'
group claims that 300,000 Rwandan Tutsis survived. The Rwandan
government has never disputed either figure, and if both are correct,
then the majority of a million dead must have been members of Rwanda's
majority Hutu population.
In 2011, after a holocaust and genocide conference at Sacramento State
University, KPFA's Ann Garrison filed an assault complaint against the
Rwandan contingent with the Sacramento State Campus Police. That
complaint was later published by the U.K. Parliament's International
Development Committee after their reconsideration of budget support to
the Kagame government in Rwanda.
The truth of what actually happened in Rwanda is significant now,
because "stopping the next Rwanda" has become an invocation to U.S.,
French and NATO military intervention in Africa and other parts of the
world, including Syria, Iran and even North Korea.
Oakland writer Ann Garrison writes for the San Francisco Bay View,
Counterpunch, Global Research, Colored Opinions, Black Star News and
her own website, Ann Garrison, and produces for AfrobeatRadio on
WBAI-NYC,KPFA Evening News and her own YouTube Channel,
AnnieGetYourGang. She can be reached atann@afrobeatradio.com. If you
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