On the anniversary of the genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994, an international invitation to reject the speech of hatred and division

Jermain Tusing Muller, who survived the genocide, said: “Our country sank in incredible horror. Families were torn. Children, including embryos, were raped. Women were often raped in front of their loved ones and their entire societies, just because they were from Tutsi.”.

Mueller recounted the details how she cut her and her mother when these events occurred, how they separated and then met after seven months in which she thought that her mother was killed.

She said that after she separated from her aunt as well: “I hid alone in a two -month house, I live on powdered milk and dissolved sugar in rain water.”.

Muller explained that she is speaking on the anniversary of the genocide in the name of children who have been completed or left without identity, and in the name of the fathers who saw their children were killed and unable to stop that killing, and in the name of women who suffered from horrific violations, and in the name of the elderly who were slaughtered, and in the name of each innocent spirit, they were destroyed just because they were from Tutsi.

An invitation to stop hate speech

At the beginning of the event hosted by the General Assembly, UN officials lit candles to revive For the memory. The United Nations Secretary -General, Antonio Guterres, said in his speech to the attendees “Genuine against Tutsi in 1994 constitutes a terrible chapter in human history”.

He added: “This horrific period of Rwanda’s history reminds us that there is no society immune to hatred and terror. When we consider how these crimes occur, we must also consider its echo of our time,” Adding that “These are the days of division”.

He pointed out that the speech “They are” in exchange for “we” raises an increasing polarization in societies in the region of the Great Lakes and around the world, stressing the need to curb the hate speech and stop the shift of division and discontent into violence.

Guterres called on all countries to join Agreement to prevent genocide Without delay, and to fulfill the responsibility for protecting its residents from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

He stressed that every country, and each segment of society, must fulfill the promise stipulated in The Universal Declaration of Human RightsBy strengthening human rights and the dignity of everyone.

He added: “On this day of anniversary, let us all adhere to vigilance and work together to build a world of justice and dignity for all.”.

An ideology is still alive

The President of the United Nations General Assembly, Philimon Yang, warned that the ideology that justified the genocide against Tutsi was not eradicated, “It is alive”.

He added that this ideology is spread through the speech of hatred, intolerance and misleading information, and it is strengthened by extremists through social media, and its spread is accelerated with artificial intelligence.

He added: “We must face hatred in every turn and in all its forms. We must challenge dangerous speeches before they are established, and before they spread all over the world. We have the responsibility of rejecting divisional discourse, standing against discrimination, and moving before it is too late, and to ensure that future generations are not poisoned with the same hatred that led to the horrors of 1994”.

He warned that while we meditate in the past, it should be remembered that genocide may occur anywhere and at any time. He stressed that the noticeable shift in Rwanda is evidence of the strength of choice; Choose recovery instead of revenge, progress instead of dividing, and unit instead of hatred. The President of the General Assembly added: “Let us commit today and every day to stand up to the forces that seek to tear us.”.

Shared responsibility

Robert Cyneamura, the acting acting mission of Rwanda to the United Nations, talked about the slogan of commemorating the memory, which is “remembering, union and renewal”, saying that the choice of the slogan was not in vain, “It represents our established conviction that memory has a power, and that unity is the basis of development, and that renewal is not just hope, but rather something that has been looking for a long time.”.

He pointed out that the thirty -first anniversary states that the echoes of the genocide are not limited to the past, warning that the same language of abstraction from humanity that was previously used to incite genocide is due to appearing again to ignite hatred and revive the primitive ideologies of the world.

He stressed that preventing genocide “Shared responsibility”Because combating the ideology of genocide cannot fall on the survivors or countries affected alone.