Rwanda’s ambassador to Ghana during the commemorative activities of the remembrance of the 1994 genocide, urged the education sector to play a role in teaching the history of genocide. According to Mbabaki, educating present and future generations will prevent such tragedies from happening again.
As the Rwandan community in Ghana are still commemorating the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, the Rwandan High Commissioner in the West African country has mentioned that educating present and future generations about the tragedy was necessary to prevent similar atrocities.
Mbabazi made the call on Friday, May 24, during a Kwibuka30 event held in the Ghanaian capital Accra, where Rwandans, Ghanaian government officials, and members of the diplomatic corps gathered to honour more than one million victims of the Genocide against the Tutsi.
Mbabazi extended her appreciation to the countries that stood with Rwanda during the Genocide and called for renewed efforts to bring perpetrators to justice.
The diplomat called on world leaders to combat Genocide denial, hate speech, discrimination and other forms of negation that distort the truth about the Genocide against the Tutsi.
Ghana’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Regional Integration, Mavis Nkansah Boadu, said her country supports Rwanda’s quest to uphold the values of peace, unity and humanity and the memory of the Genocide victims.
The event concluded with activities that included a « Walk-to-Remember », a students’ commemoration of Kwibuka30 at Ashesi University and a symposium at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) in which delegates deliberated on the need to educate the world about the tragedy and to ensure similar atrocities do not happen anywhere in the world.
