Editor, RE: “Is recognition of Genocide in the eye of the beholder?” (The New Times, July 27). Add the fact that in arresting Lt. Gen. Karenzi Karake in London recently on risibly fraudulent genocide charges by a Spanish judge acting on the behest of génocidaires-supporting Spanish Catholic NGOs (who the UN itself has fingered as financial supporters of the genocidal and terrorist FDLR), the UK itself is in no moral position to sponsor any resolution against genocide. The pattern of recent behaviour by the British (the arrest on obscene genocide charges of an actual hero in ending the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda while the rest of the world, including Britain, looked on indifferently; or were complicit in that genocide, as were their French allies and many in the Catholic Church hierarchy; providing a haven from legal prosecution of Rwandan genocide suspects) and their media’s continuous trivialization of the genocide, or its outright denial with the full forbearance of Westminster, mean London has completely disqualified itself from sponsoring any anti-genocide resolution. In the current circumstances where it is either protecting Rwandan génocidaires on its territory, or acting in concert with their sponsors to inverse roles to transform the génocidaires into victims and the heroes and those who stopped the genocide into perpetrators, its role in introducing the resolution for the recognition of the Srebrenica atrocity as genocide risks making Britain itself into a hypocritical laughingstock. You cannot be working to undermine anti-genocide efforts in Rwanda and claim any moral standing to sponsor recognition of genocide elsewhere. Such blatant inconsistence only opens you to accusations of hypocrisy and double standards in the service of narrow geopolitical interests. Mwene Kalinda
