The French presidency announced, Friday, April 7, the upcoming construction of a monument in Paris in memory of the Rwandan Tutsi genocide of 1994, on the occasion of the 29th ceremony to commemorate this tragedy.
Through this initiative, according to the Elysée, it is a question of “paying a national, visible and permanent tribute to the memory of the victims”. France, through the voice of its President Emmanuel Macron, has already recognized « responsibility » in this massacre.
For Secretary of State Chrysoula Zacharopoulos, this monument is « a call to awaken all consciences to what human beings have been able to commit most atrociously in their history ».
The work will be erected on « the left bank not far from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and just opposite, on the opposite bank, the monument to the memory of the victims of the Armenian genocide », specifies your, knowing that the city of Paris will launch a tender next month.
On the side of the association of survivors Ibuka France, we salute “a gesture of appeasement of memories between France and Rwanda and of appeasement of the hearts of genocide survivors”.
According to UN figures, more than 800,000 people, mainly members of the Tutsi minority, were massacred between April and July 1994. This genocide was orchestrated by the Hutu power of the time.
By OMA Newsletter N° 1125 of 10/04/2023
Article published under the direction of Dr. Najib Kettani
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