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Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Independent presidential candidate Philippe Mpayimana has pledged to institute legal action against countries responsible for Rwanda\u2019s tragic past that culminated into the infamous 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.<\/p>\n

This is part of the now 54-year-old presidential hopeful\u2019s manifesto that contains over 50 proposals.<\/p>\n

Under the justice sector, Mpayimana proposes to prepare a court case under the United Nations (UN) \u2013 before its Hague-based International Court of Justice \u2013 against countries namely German, Belgium, and France because of the distortion of Rwanda\u2019s history and morality between 1894 and 1994 that led to the Genocide perpetrated against the Tutsi, and the protection of those who committed it and fled to DR Congo.<\/p>\n

Mpayimana wondered why the implicated countries have not been brought to justice, suggesting that they should not be let off.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they divided the people, why can\u2019t they be held accountable for that,\u201d he wondered.<\/p>\n

Unlike other genocides reported globally, the 1994 Genocide perpetrated against Tutsi was committed by Rwandans against Rwandans.<\/p>\n

Over one million people were brutally killed in 100 days during the Genocide.<\/p>\n

For centuries, the information indicates, Rwanda existed as a centralised monarchy under a succession of kings from one clan, who ruled through cattle chiefs, land chiefs and military chiefs.<\/p>\n

The king was supreme but the rest of the population, Hutu, Tutsi and Twa \u2013 which referred to socio-economic statuses \u2013 lived in symbiotic harmony.<\/p>\n

In 1899, Rwanda became a German colony and, in 1919, the system of indirect rule continued with Rwanda as a mandate territory of the League of Nations, under Belgium.<\/p>\n

According to the USC Shoah Foundation \u2013 the Institute for Visual History and Education [headquartered at the University of Southern California (USC)], an organisation dedicated to carrying out audio-visual interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust\u2014the genocide against the Jews (which in Hebrew is called the Shoah)\u2013the roots of the Genocide against the Tutsi lay in Rwanda\u2019s colonial past, indicating that colonialism introduced ethnic conflict into a social structure where ethnicity previously did not exist.<\/p>\n

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