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Dr Harry Verhoeven writes about remembering the Rwandan genocide 20 years on

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Harry Verhoeven has written an opinion piece for Al Jazeera online (8 April) on the twentieth anniversary of the massacre of hundreds of thousands in Rwanda.


Harry writes: Somewhere between fragmentation and reconciliation, there is one thing that draws wide agreement in Gikongoro: A more nuanced conversation should not merely be an affair of Rwandans doing more soul searching regarding each others suffering. The devastating responsibility of the outside world in the 1994 tragedy and its aftermath is still insufficiently dealt with, in spite of apologies by the UN Secretary General and the Belgian government, the former colonial power.