In an evolving terrain, every genocide commemoration counts
A family lays a wreath at the public grave where victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi are interred at the Nyanza Genocide Memorial in Kigali on April 11, 2018. PHOTO | CYRIL NDEGEYA | NMG
Last month, in Bugarama, a border town in Rwanda’s deep southwest, a young man told me, “This year’s genocide commemorations will be the same as last year’s and the one before that and the one before that. No one will remember this one. Next year, the 25th anniversary of the Genocide against the Tutsi — that will be the big one.”
Two stories from this past week show how mistaken he was.
