“4th July, This day will remain significant for those Rwandans who grew up or born outside the country, finally they had an identity, what they would call home. “With any single lie, trust ends.” These few words from a great friend came into my mind when contemplating about this day, how the Rwandan society is broken. The social upheaval which started on the echelon of power – village Urugwiro has affected in one-way or another everyone; a society that is consumed with lies, deceit, intrigue, selfishness, betrayal, jealous and hate.
All norms which bind the ancestral behaviours dusted to the bins in favour of a cultural darkness which is envisaged by ONE MAN. To this great friend, a lie is a lie, it doesn’t matter how small or big it is; there shouldn’t be an excuse for any single lie. To this friend, the current Rwandan way of deceptive conversation is unholy.
What Kagame has totally managed is to kill the concept of truth and trust; people are living in fear of each other. A simple question is replied with another question rather than answer or replied with a multitude of vague answers. Normal open conversation has totally been destroyed; conversation has been turned into a game of chess. The dude has succeeded in turning everyone to envisage each other with suspicion. This underhand method created through means of close surveillance monitoring has totally destroyed the fabric of the Rwandan society.
It was through a friend that Col Karegeya was assassinated, it was through a family member that Abdoul Joshua Ruzibiza was assassinated, it was through a partner that professor Akexandre Kimenyi was assassinated, it was through a comrade that Col Charles Ngoga was assassinated, it was through a trusted military medical doctor that Col Vedaste Kayitari was assassinated, it was through a medical doctor that Steven Ndugute was assassinated….the list is endless, the RPF/ RPA founding fathers being the first elements to be deleted – a subject for another day. ” We are better than this. Have your say!
By Robert Higiro
