By Bosco Mutarambirwa
If you have visited Rwanda lately, you have probably noticed that most store shelves are essentially empty due to the shortage of imports from Uganda and Burundi. One high-end store chain has its shelves fully stocked, however. Which high-end store chain is this? Genocide memorials. You can do window-shopping, you can walk around the store all you want, but you cannot take the merchandise home because it is too valuable and too profitable for Kagame’s regime, priceless due to the raw materials, and nightmarish to you should you be billionaire enough to afford Kagame’s price tag.
While visiting any one of the memorials you will be mentally shocked, you will get emotional, you will experience some sort of break down. Guaranteed. It doesn’t matter what you are. You are a human being after all, and all the merchandise that you see on display come from your own kind. The humans. Poor humans. During your tour of the store, you will be consistently reminded that all those are remains of Tutsis. The message so targeted that it will be engraved in your brain by the time you finish the tour. You will think of tutsi victims, nothing but tutsi. Even if no description is provided to you as to what a tutsi skeleton looks like, or how a tutsi physically body differs from a hutu’s.
Despite all you were told about the non-existence of ethnic ID card. You will be so emotional that you will stop thinking. You will not dare to make sense of all those controversial messages. You will ask no questions. More importantly, as a result of your emotional breakdown you will jot down an emotional not in the guest book. Yes, you will put it in writing. During the tour and at the conclusion of the tour, you will be receiving hard looks or some sort of facial expressions from your well trained tour guide(s), which is tactically intended to exploit your emotional breakdown and therefore to let you know that a note is not good enough.
Consequently, you will deposit a sizable cash or cash-equivalent donation into some genocide memorial fund or you will pledge to do so in the nearest future. If you have powerful connections you will have your government or your philanthropic organization chip in. Big money, small money, it adds up. This is how Paul Kagame makes a big bucks. This is how this Rwanda’s totalitarian dictator finances his luxurious private jets, this is how Kagame’s hutu and tutsi sycophants are able to keep up their lavish lifestyle while the rest of genocide survivors struggle to make ends meet.
This donor money is what makes Rwanda genocide, as we know it today, such a hot commodity for Kagame’s dictatorial regime. But whose body remains are really those that you see displayed on genocide memorials shelves? Hutus’ or Tutsis’? Or both? Why does the sign say “genocide against tutsis”? Why doesn’t it make reference to Hutus at all? Or better yet, does Kagame regime not keep saying that ethnic labels have been eliminated by his regime? Why is everything so contradictory? That all Rwandans are equal? How can one tell which skeletons are hutus and which are tutsis?
What happened to the bodies of the hutu victims of Kibeho massacres? It is widely documented same number of innocent people were killed in Kibeho on that day of April 22nd 1995 as did three months later in Srebrenica, Bosnia. Srebrenica cemetery is open for visit to the public at no cost and victims are officially commemorated every year. What about Kibeho’s hutu victims? Where are their bodies? Could they be displayed on genocide memorials shelves to improve inventory count?
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