Rwandan president urges international community to fight genocide ‘denial, revisionism and hate speech’

Cameroon-Info - 08/04
Rwandan president urges international community to fight genocide ‘denial, revisionism and hate speech’
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‘We must fight denial because that's how history repeats itself,’ Paul Kagame says at event to commemorate 1994 genocide

KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame urged the international community Friday to fight genocide “denial, revisionism and hate speech” which he said persists.

Kagame said genocide ideology and denial is a dangerous and deliberate attempt to block the truth.

“From the beginning, we understood the need to cultivate and preserve the spirit of oneness to give us hope for a better future,” he said in the nation’s capital of Kigali at an event to mark the 29th anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi ethnic group.

“We cannot, howeve...
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