April 7 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The European Union remembered this Sunday the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide with applause for reconciliation in the African country three decades after the wave of massacres committed by Hutu militias that for one hundred days exterminated at least 800,000 people, the majority Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
“On this solemn and tragic occasion, the European Union joins the Rwandan nation and its people in remembering more than one million men, women and children who were murdered in a campaign of deliberate atrocities. The EU expresses its solidarity with the families and friends of the victims whose loss endures today,” Brussels said in a statement.
In the note, the EU “honors the survivors and their families, whose daily bravery continues to inspire the world.”
The European authorities emphasize that “what has been achieved by Rwanda during these last three decades in its journey towards unity, towards justice and towards the preservation of the memory of the genocide against the Tutsis is a lesson for the rest of the world.”
Finally, the EU underlines the importance of “learning from the lessons of the past” to prevent “such an abomination from being repeated”, starting with the “rejection of xenophobia and any form of discrimination.”
