Dear friends of Inyenyerinews, keep my name anonymous please.

I would like to make also a short comment about the \\\”Reaction on Dr Kambanda\\\’s Genocide Statement\\\” published on your website on 19/05/2014.

I am not specialist in any law as such. I am a simple Rwandan Citezen who is thinking about how Rwanda can recover from genocide and massacres we have known in our history. My interest is not in determining if in Rwanda we have had genocide or not. Only facts talk to us once we are Rwandans. I do not have pleasure of confirming if in Rwanda there was genocide or not, I am only terrified by the lost of a such life of our brothers and sisters.

Tell me Dear, does a young hutu or tutsi who has lost the entire members of his/her family think about genocide/massacre or only just death, killings? What do these vacabularies of genocide/massacre add or change to his/her situation? What he/she sees is the fact of being alone! And for him/her his/her situation is the fruit of human hatred and violence (from hutu or tutsi). What is the difference between a surviver of the killings of hutu (members of interahamwe-RAF) or the tutsi (members of Inkotanyi-RPF)? Do you think the word \\\’genocide\\\’ is enough to make the difference? I need to learn more about this, please.

In your first point, you suggest that the RAF have never been desarmed. But there was an ambargo of ammunitions and weapons against them. Can we call that desarmement?

In your second point, you argue that in law there is not need to proof the plannification of genocide in order to determine the perpetrators. But, you say also that genocide is determined by the intention of its perpetrators. That is to say that the law against genocide is contradicting itself; because to have a plan and to intend to are equal. Am I correct?

These are the questions I would like to ask you. May be this can help us as Rwandans to understand each other. Hopefully.

If we accept the argument made in the reactions one thing stands out. The writer states: More so, Dr Kambanda
knows well that insufficient evidence does not mean absence of
evidence. In many cases brought before the ICTR, the prosecutor could
not establish beyond reasonable doubt that defendants conspired to
commit genocide. But again, the court decides on specific cases, i.e
specific individual defendants. Finally, the fact that the prosecutor
did not have enough evidence may be a result of several factors, such
as lack of insider’s testimonies which is very helpful to establish
charges of conspiracy in domestic criminal cases.\”

Why has no RPF member or Paul Kagame been tried since there is plenty of evidence available to the tribunal for their crimes? We have insider testimony, testimony of the survivors, etc. The ICTR was not formed just to judge Genocide, it was also to prosecute crimes against humanity. Until those who we know are culpable for the same crimes of murder, rape and torture are brought to book, reconciliation will not be possible. The next step is to quit blaming all Hutu collectively, lastly, get the criminal Mafia that is the RPF, and their boss out of power.

u’ve to be ashamed Prof Kambanda. U know better than anyone else that the genocide of tutsi was planned longtime ago. And remember very well the journalists on RTLM called hutus to kill tutsi saying that they’re not reals Rwandans. Witness are everywhere. Just what i know hutus are not all killers. Some many of them saved tutsis. So plz don’t fool us just because you’re a proffessor in many different universities.

I at a given point I do agree with these hypothetical reasons about what really happened in the “Rwandan Genocide”. However, I under-look the point of these arguments about ‘what the name the killing of our people Tutsis, Hutus or Twas’ I will never be proud of this stupid inhumanity and never separate who killed who or who was killed by who. All of us we had a right to live in our beautiful Rwanda as well as had a right to chose who is the right leader. So confused Professor and Kigali alarmist both you just want recognition. As an intellectual and heroes respectively on the blood of our own people. Shame on on you all are still using this sarcasm for your selfish ends.