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Out and About with Mark Lancaster
Our local MP
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In a change from his normal piece, this month MP Mark Lancaster reflects on his recent trip to Rwanda as part of a team of volunteers building a community centre for genocide survivors.
and dithered, over 500,000 Rwandans
anticipated the 60 days of genocide that followed.
perhaps crucially, the tribal distinction between those with cows and those without seems set to be gone forever.
It is impossible to travel the country without
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President Paul Kigami has come a long way from his days as the RDF Tutsi rebel leader that halted the genocide whilst the world
have a humanitarian unit embedded in it, his
being reminded constantly of the genocide; Back in April 1994, as the world watched watched. Possibly the only rebel force ever to from the refugee camps on the Congo border
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efforts to unite the country have been
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remarkable. It is now illegal to ask a Rwandan
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coming to terms with its horrific past.
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at a charity called ‘SURF’, a survivors charity aimed at providing housing for widows and orphans of the genocide on the outskirts of the capital Kigali. The simple huts with tin roofs laid out in neat lines provide the most basic of accommodation but are luxury compared to the UN refugee camps. The only thing really
The tribal conflict between the ruling minority Tutsi and majority Hutu was not a new one, provoked by a ‘divide and conquer’ policy by the then Belgian colonial power, Hutu resentment had simmered over into mass killings more than once in the 1960s and
minority, President Kigami’s popularity continues to soar as the country slowly begins to prosper.
Today, tribal differences are being eroded
subtly. Traditionally the Tutsi were the
herdsmen with all the money and power that
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owning cattle brought whilst the Hutu
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the genocide that was unleashed after the
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assassination of the then Hutu President part by UK taxpayers money, aims to give
Juvénal Habyarimana on 6th April 1994.
in banana trees into a series of terraces and
construct a community centre, outside
amphitheatre, garden, playground and five-a-
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every rural family a cow. The cow’s manure is
Some say he was killed by Tutsi rebels, used to help grow vegetables and by selling side football pitch, all in two weeks flat! It
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