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

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.

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.

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?

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.

Fuck the racist British government for its deportations of refugees to Rwanda. Fuck Britain's exploitation of people. Fuck anybody who supports that shit. Fuck anybody who makes excuses for that shit. And fuck England.

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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.

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.

SOURCE: Shake Hands With the Devil by Romeo Dallaire

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The last queen of Rwanda, Rosalie Gicanda.

She was the wife of Rwandan King Mutara III Rudahigwa. After her husband died in mysterious circumstances in 1959, the Rwandan monarchy lasted only two more years, under the leadership of King Kigeli V Ndahindurwa and then coming to an end with the Rwandan Revolution in 1961.

On April 20th 1994, as the Rwandan genocide began in earnest in Butare, a detachment of soldiers commanded by Lt. Pierre Bizimana, acting under the orders of Capt. Ildéphonse Nizeyimana, kidnapped the former Queen along with others from her house. They then took the captives behind the National Museum and shot them. Only a younger girl survived to tell the story of the murders. Two days later, the Queen's mother was also murdered. At the request of a priest, Butare mayor Kanyabashi recovered Queen Gicanda’s body and had it buried in the yard next to her house.

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La última reina de Ruanda, Rosalie Gicanda.

Ella era la esposa del Rey Ruandés Mutara III Rudahigwa. Después de que su esposo falleciera bajo circunstancias misteriosas en el año 1959, la monarquía Ruandés duró sólo dos años más, bajo el liderazgo del Rey Kigeli V Ndahindurwa y llegó a su final junto con la Revolucion Ruandesa en el año 1961.

El 20 de abril de 1996, cuando el genocidio Rwandes había comenzado formalmente en Butare, una división de soldados comando por Teniente Pierre Bizimana, actuando bajo las órdenes del Capitán Ildéphonse Nizeyimana, secuestraron la ex reina junto con otras personas que vivían en su casa. Luego llevaron a los capturados atrás del Museo Nacional y les dispararon. Una pequeña niña fue la única que sobrevivió para contar la historia de los asesinatos. A solicitud de un sacerdote, el alcalde de Butare, Kanyabashi, recuperó el cuerpo de la Reina Gicanda e hizo que la enterraran en un patio cerca de la casa de ella.

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The Rwandan Genocide

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

"Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust" by Immaculee Ilibagiza book recommendation by Rachel Sylvan

24 books in 2024, 24 countries in 2024

memoir, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Diverse reads

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!

The events of the Rwandan Genocide, incidentally, are why the 'it's a genocide, not a war' rhetoric is always horseshit:

The Rwandan Genocide is one of the most famous since the Shoah, one of the ones to most directly link the stochastic propaganda that fuels it, to prove that the more unsubtle methods of machetes work just as well as the industrial murder factories of the Nazis, and which in turn went from genocide to civil war, and was the direct father of the First Congo War of 1996. This genocide also proved a point that the world was and is perfectly capable of watching bone-chillingly horrible events while doing nothing and that the UN, to put it charitably, is less than fucking useless to stop a genocide when it's not actively enabling it.