UNITY AND RECONCILIATION PROCESS IN RWANDA
Author: NURC Category: peacebuilding, social cohesion Publisher: NURC Published: 2016 Tags: Reconciliation | Unity |
Description:
| Rwanda is a country that has a long history manifested in varying eras—the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial. During the pre-colonial era, Rwanda was a united society. Rwandans‘ unity became hampered since the arrival of colonial administration and missionaries, through their divide and rule policy. Divisive policies and ideology of hate, as well as the persecution and violation of human rights characterized this form of bad leadership. This situation perpetuated and climaxed into one of the most brutal and devastating Genocides in the history of humanity—the 1994 Genocide perpetrated against Tutsi, which was halted by the victorious liberation war of the Rwandese Patriotic Army (RPA)—the then armed wing of Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF).The divisive past, and the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi, profoundly destroyed the socioeconomic and political fabric of Rwanda, thus leaving a deeply traumatized society and a failed state. How to bring about Unity and Reconciliation, as the foundation of peace and sustainable development in Rwanda, thus became one of the pressing challenges that the post 1994-Genocide Government of National Unity had to deal with. |
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