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Mukankiko Sylvie, an awful genocide ideologue in Denmark
Although it’s been 28 years since the Genocide against
the Tutsi took place in Rwanda, there still exists genocide ideologues who
continue to propagate the noxious ideology, mainly through social media
platforms that make it so easy for them to operate uncensored from all corners
of the World.
The Media was a big tool in the incitement of people to
commit the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. After 28 years, genocide
deniers never ceased to use the media as a tool to deny the genocide against
the Tutsi, adding salt to wounds of survivors who still need justice.
Sylvie Mukankiko, a resident of Denmark is one of the
genocide ideologues and deniers who seems to enjoy unfettered freedom to
propagate hate through her YouTube channel and other social media platforms. There
is this famous adage that says, show me your friend and I will tell you who you
are.
Well, generated from her rather bizarre vivacity in
propagating the hate messages against a targeted group of people, Mukankiko
first activated my apathy against all what she spends hours talking about, as
she intentionally distorts all facts related to the Genocide against the Tutsi
in Rwanda and engages in mass propaganda against the country’s leadership,
always not any close to the truth but with new distorted facts and incoherent
arguments.
She is evidently confused and aiming at taking other
people on the confusion roller-coaster. The truth of the matter is, she might
fool none other than her immediate entourage but for a very short period of
time as facts are very stubborn and always end up catching up with the forger.
For Mukankiko, it seems Genocide ideology is all she
inherited from her extended family members.
Mukankiko hails from Kamonyi district, Kayumbu sector,
Muyange cell, Kaje village.
She is a daughter of Mutabazi Andre, a former youth
coordinator in the former commune of Murama. Her mother Nyiransengimana Drocella
hails from Rutobwe; precisely from a place called Mukaje. Her parents are
deceased.
Mukankiko’s father, prior to his death, was in charge of
mobilizing the youth militia of Interahamwe to identify and kill all the Tutsi
in the former commune of Murama and Kayenzi. During the genocide, he is known
to have been one the most dyed-in-the-wool killers as he would make sure that
there is no survivor of his organized killings by coordinating a
double-checking exercise to ascertain that all the Tutsi in his locality were
killed.
In trying to understand where Mukankiko derives her
hateful ideology, one needs to make a further step and look beyond her nuclear
family but in her extended family as well.
Her uncles, such as one Misago Deogratrias, is a
notorious figure among the genocidaires in the Rutobwe area. Her other
uncle Theodore Mpatsenumugabo, a former employee of the then Ministry of
Transport and Communication (MINITRANSCO), is now a refugee in Niger is known
to be among the notorious figures who superintended over the killing of Tutsis
who worked in this ministry.
He is an active genocide ideologue in his refuge in the
West African country. The list of where she inherits her genocide ideology that
still persists after almost three decades or more is long.
But last but not least in her relatives’ long list who
play a role in shaping her current behavior on top of her pitiable judgment
capacity is her other uncle Nkiko Nsengimana, one of the founding members of
FDU-Inkingi together with Ingabire Victoire but later parted ways, following
their internal disagreements, often motivated by mutual denunciations of
regionalism.
Mukankiko Sylivie and her uncle, Nkiko Nsengimana
He is a former lecturer at the National University of
Rwanda and a former director of Iwacu Kukabusunzu centre. He too, like his kith,
is known to have motivated the killers to exterminate the Tutsi in Kayenzi
where he hails.
Mukankiko is probably among the very few in her family
who made it to Europe where she certainly is a beneficiary of a variety of
social welfare packages in the Scandinavian country. This should have helped
her in developing the right attitude to humanity and social responsibility and
created an opportunity for her to change what is perceived as being a bad
reputation of her family by doing the right thing.
In the contrary, Mukankiko abused her status in Denmark.
She utilized the space that Denmark offered her to propagate perilous hate
messages that not only are dehumanizing but do not offer a penny of respect to
the victims and survivors of the Genocide against the Tutsi. Denmark, her host
country, so far, has taken no action against her citizen Mukankiko. For
Rwandans this might lead to a conclusion that the country is simply indifferent
to her treacherous acts or sides with her in her fallacies.
It is with no surprise that such a person that is Mukankiko
has left her brothers Mutayomba Jean Damascene a.k.a Damas, in Rutobwe village
and her brother Mutabazi Protais who from his desperate life was forced to live
in the streets are left without any help from their sister in Denmark and
spends hours of her working hours to produce hateful messages and spreading
genocide ideology on social media networks.
Having inherited the genocide ideology from her family
should not and will never be considered a valid excuse for the crimes she is
deliberately committing.