President Paul Kagame has said that Rwanda is a small country that has made great strides to promote justice highlighting that powerful countries pretending to teach it, do not have inspiring lessons to do so in terms of justice.

Kagame was speaking at the ceremony marking the beginning of the 28th commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi that will last for 100 days.

The Head of State said that remembering is a moment when people are speechless not because of lacking freedom to speak as some people which some people associate to the country.

"That’s rubbish. It just doesn’t make sense. But the reason is also clear why people just imagine the testimony we have just heard, people being hunted down day and night for who they were, for who some of them are still today. Also imagine, if those of us who were carrying arms, if we had allowed ourselves to pursue those who were killing our people, indiscriminately, and also killed them,” he noted.

“First of all, we would be right to do so but we didn’t. We spared them. Some of them are still living today in their homes, in their villages, others are in Government, and they are doing business,” Kagame added.

The President highlighted that despite Rwanda’s efforts, some countries continue to have guts to say what they say or do about Rwanda.

“Let me tell you, we are a small country but we are big on justice. And some of those are big and powerful countries but they are very small on justice,” he underscored.

Kagame stressed that such countries have no lessons to teach anyone because they are part of history that saw over a million of victims perishing during the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi and want to conceal their complicity.

“They are the cause and Rwandans just executed, killed their fellow Rwandans. The history of that originated where we all know. It originated from that. So, the very reasons that what we suffered, what we endured here, originated from there, is the reason they cannot give us peace. They want to cover up their responsibility, their silence when the millions of people here in Rwanda needed them to speak out and come to their help,” he noted.
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