Genocide Day: What has the world learned?

As the world marks the 66th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, today, there is little to confirm that humankind has borrowed a leaf from previous tragedies.
A procession of the Kwibuka Flame in Kicukiro District during the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi earlier this year. (John Mbanda)
A procession of the Kwibuka Flame in Kicukiro District during the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi earlier this year. (John Mbanda)
James Karuhanga