Regional
Australia continues to betray Genocide survivors
From
April 7, countries around the world have hosted commemoration events
remembering the more than one million victims of the 1994 Genocide perpetrated
against the Tutsi in Rwanda but some countries such as Australia decided to
give genocide ideologues, genocide fugitives, and their families, space to
carry out the last stage of genocide; genocide denial, with impunity.
On
April 20, the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, in Australia, hosted one such
event organized by the so-called Rwandan Association of Queensland Inc (RAQ), a
group openly propagating the double genocide theory, a form of genocide denial.
Since
2019, the Australian Parliament annually welcomes this event, ignoring the
outrage and strong objections of Rwandans, especially genocide survivors, to
hosting such an event.
The
Australian government is clearly on a mission of peddling genocide denial and
revisionism. Rwandans and friends of Rwanda should not be surprised since this
is the same government hosting genocide fugitives, despite all the overwhelming
evidence against them.
The
Australian security apparatus and authorities have failed to either
investigate, prosecute, or extradite individuals alleged to have committed
genocide who are living in their country.
Worse
still, Australia has, on purpose, welcomed and granted citizenship to FDLR
members. The FDLR is a group formed by remnants of the perpetrators of the 1994
Genocide against the Tutsi. It has been, for the past 30 years, actively
operating in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
These
individuals namely; Francois Karake, Gregoire Nyaminani and Leonidas
Bimenyimana, in 1999, were involved in a deadly attack in Bwindi National
forest, in DRC, resulting into the killings of nine tourists including two
American nationals.
The
criminals were deported to the United States of America to face trial, but were
acquitted in 2006. Later, Rwandan authorities repeatedly requested the US
government to send them to Rwanda so that they could be put on trial for their
Genocide crimes, to no avail.
Instead,
in November 2019, through a secret refugee swap deal signed between US and
Australia, the trio were transferred to Australia as asylum recipients.
Today,
these murderers are roaming freely in Australia as legitimate citizens, while
Genocide survivors are still waiting for justice to be served.
Rwandans
know that the US did not chose Australia to host these individuals by accident.
The US administration was very much aware that the Australian government is,
and will successfully offer safety to these genocidaire, as it has always done
in the past.
By
hosting genocide fugitives, and giving a platform to genocide deniers, the
Australian government is betraying Rwandans and the entire human race. By
allowing this traversity of justice to go on, for so long, they are sending a
message of encouragement to the Genocide ideologues.