“Not dealing with the truth per se on Rwanda”

Recently, Susan Thomson wrote in The East African that “Rwanda peasantry is defying ‘reconciliation’”. She asserts that they resist the national unity and reconciliation programme while acknowledging that “so many people –donors, journalists, policy-makers and civil society representatives alike – see Rwanda as a peaceful, stable, development oriented country.” She states that Rwandan peasants consider the programme unjust as it works against their interests and that it disallows open discussions of how ethnicity shaped the violence of the genocide and that the government does not “allow for public acknowledgement of the existence or experience of Tutsi and Twa perpetrators; Hutu and Twa rescuers; Tutsi, Hutu and Twa resisters; or Hutu and Twa survivors.”
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