Le gouvernement du Kenya, en collaboration avec la communauté rwandaise résidant dans ce pays, a participé à la cérémonie de commémoration du 32ᵉ anniversaire du Génocide contre les Tutsi, tenue aux bureaux des Nations Unies à Nairobi.

More than 800 people including members of the Rwandan community in Kenya, Kenyan government officials, members of the diplomatic corps, representatives of international organizations in Kenya, and friends of Rwanda attended the commemorative event.

Amb. Erneste Rwamucyo, High Commissioner of Rwanda to Kenya, noted that Kwibuka32 is both a time to honor the victims, comfort survivors and pay tribute to the Rwandan Patriotic Front/Army whose brave young men and women under the wise leadership of H.E President Paul Kagame liberated the country, stopped the genocide and restored the nation’s dignity and hope.

 “We remember the men, women, and children whose lives were cut short simply because of who they were, Tutsi. We honour their memory, not just in mourning, but in our commitment to ensuring that such horrors never happen again anywhere in the world”, Ambassador Erneste Rwamucyo, High Commissioner of Rwanda to Kenya.

He also added that commemoration serves a collective call to members of the international community to ensure the dismantling of the FDLR genocidal group and the arrest of genocide perpetrators while at the same time denying platforms to the deniers of the genocide against the Tutsi.

The Ambassador Dennis Gathogo Mburu, Director General of the African Directorate Kenya’s ministry of foreign and diaspora affairs has reaffirmed Kenya’s commitment and solidarity with the government and the people of Rwanda and saluted the incredible resilience and courage of the survivors who showed remarkable strength in the face of imaginable loss and continue to serve as inspiration to the humanity. 

“Kenya is proud to stand with Rwanda as a neighbour, as a partner, and as a fellow nation committed to the belief and dignity of human life. Our friendship is rooted in shared values, a shared vision for a continent that chooses unity over division, justice over impunity”, he said.

Zainab Hawa Bangura, Director General of UN Office at Nairobi, said : “We pay tribute to the survivors whose resilience shows the strength of the human spirit, and we recall with humility and shame the international community’s failure to heed warnings and take immediate life-saving action.”

“It is not enough to remember the dead. We must learn from past failures and protect the living by rejecting hatred, inflammatory rhetoric, and incitement to violence, by investing in the social fabric to deepen community resilience, and by strengthening institutions that help prevent mass atrocities.”

Ambassador Erneste Rwamucyo insisted that the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi was not a spontaneous eruption of violence. It was a carefully orchestrated plan of destruction built over decades of divisions, discrimination, and dehumanization.