Rwanda: In the Washington Post, Baldwin Justifies UK and U.S. Politicisation of the Genocide Against the Tutsi

11 April 2021
The New Times (Kigali)
By Olivier Mushimire

On the 7th of April 2021, as Rwandans were commemorating the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, US and UK officials engaged in a sordid competition of genocide denial by issuing shameful statements found here and here in which the victims and the historical truth of what happened twenty-seven years ago were erased.

At the same time, the Washington Post published Gretchen Baldwin's "Rwanda's government now uses the annual genocide remembrance as a political tool." The Americans and British as well as their "independent" media appear to have decided that they will use genocide denial as a means of furthering Rwanda's reconciliation. Take a moment to think about that.

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