This week saw Sweden becoming the latest country to convict someone on its soil for the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.Stanislas Mbanenande was found guilty of mass participation in killings that took place in Kibuye, Western Province, and sentenced to life imprisonment.Late last year, another Scandinavian country, Finland, also sentenced another Rwandan, Francois Bazaramba, for the same crime, an indication that some countries are now coming out of their stupor and taking firm action against Genocidaires, many roaming freely in the West.Though the news is encouraging that the Genocide and its ideology have been put back high up on the agenda, some people tend to trivialise it and are very insulting by their carefree and patronising “advice”, the latest to join the bandwagon being former Ugandan diplomat, Harold E. Acemah.In his column in the Daily Monitor titled” Rwanda please listen to President Kikwete’s proposal for peace talks, Acemah comes out as a wanabee regional expert who has an answer to everything but forgets himself in the equation.Genocide is not a trivial matter as some people who were watching it unfold from the comforts of their armchairs in Toronto or wherever tend to treat it, we know what we are talking about. Not every Tom Dick and Harry should be given space to insult the souls of millions of Rwandans who perished in the Genocide, they should keep their advice to themselves. No wonder The Monitor pulled down Acemahs offensive article from its website.
