Catholic Church needs to disassociate itself from Genocide perpetrators

Editor, RE: “Church condemns priests who spread genocide ideology” (The New Times, May 17). Which Catholic Church are we referring to here; the one that continues to protect the likes of Wenceslas Munyeshyaka and trashes any of his victims and other witnesses who dare speak out against his crimes? The same that is quietly in league with the murderous FDLR militia and has never flagged in its support of those killers’ project to ‘finish the job’ they were interrupted from completing in 1994? Some of us will have to be excused if we remain completely unconvinced that the same Church that has such a heavy responsibility in our tragic history now claims to have seen the light. We shall only begin to believe them when we see the Church initiating practical steps to exclude from its ranks the all too many of its clergy and lay agents that were complicit in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and who have continued to pursue their genocidal project through their tireless support of the FDLR and others of their ilk. We will only believe them when its mouthpieces in Rome stop mocking the victims of the Genocide while attempting to whitewash the role of that same Church and its agents in the many crimes committed in our country from the moment they arrived on the scene. Words are cheap. Given their track record in this country, it is action we want to see in order to judge whether they truly mean what they say. Mwene Kalinda

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Catholic Church needs to disassociate itself from Genocide perpetrators