H.E Jeannette Kagame reminds the Rwandan youth of their role in fighting against Genocide ideologies

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02:18 - I'm thankful to be here tonight,

02:21 and yet there is a bittersweet quality to these gatherings.

02:27 While we are grateful for the light and warmth

02:32 from the bonfires, flames, (speaking in foreign language)

02:36 we are forever reminded of the darkness and the coldness

02:40 that this fire was lead to remedy to.

02:44 Dear youth, (speaking in foreign language)

02:48 many of you are too young to recall the skepticism

02:52 that weighed upon our backs

02:56 when Rwandans made the defiant yet ever self-loving choice

03:00 to revoke hate and embrace unity.

03:05 For some, to speak the truth on the atrocities

03:08 that we have had to overcome is to rehash a past

03:13 and confront an eternal reality

03:15 that they either don't have the capacity

03:17 or the willingness to absorb.

03:20 And for others, denying our past altogether

03:25 is a cowardly escape from guilt over their inaction,

03:30 or worse, their part in keeping genocide ideology existent

03:35 in the most sinister parts of our societies or abroad.

03:40 This is a shame.

03:45 But our united and harmonious country is a beaming new moon

03:49 and an old saying that perhaps you might have heard

03:54 says that the moon does not care for hauling dogs.

03:58 This country or outside of it, we only have one Rwanda

04:03 and this Rwanda belongs to us all.

04:07 As the poet said, we are truly Rwandans.

04:11 I hope that those battling trauma, sadness,

04:15 or even the detractors and everyone in between

04:20 can ask ourselves these enlightening questions.

04:25 What other choice did we ever have?

04:30 Who could condemn a government

04:33 that replaced a discriminatory leadership

04:36 with one of national unity?

04:40 Who could condemn a government

04:42 that employed restorative justice over revenge?

04:46 One that repatriated its people

04:49 used as a shield by a genocide?

04:51 And one that abolished the death penalty

04:56 and a quota system giving access to basic rights

05:00 for all Rwandans?

05:01 The list is not exhaustive.

05:05 We must maintain unwavering faith

05:08 in our choices to stay together,

05:10 be accountable, and think big.

05:12 Do we not deserve to mourn the 10,000

05:16 that were killed every day

05:17 for 100 consecutive days in peace and dignity?

05:21 We must reject any shame for defending our dignity.

05:25 I wish for better Rwanda.

05:29 I pray for better humanity.

05:32 May we all be our sisters and brothers' keepers

05:36 for this Kwebuka 28.

05:39 We are a home of an infinite form

05:42 for the millions of pieces

05:44 making up the whole of Rwanda's soul.

05:46 We could never achieve a miracle

05:49 by forming against that which we are.

05:51 Never.

05:53 And we are never attempting again.

05:56 Despite our story bearing a lesson

06:03 we wish we'd never learned,

06:05 it does link us to rebirth.

06:07 And so we remember on the memory of a before life

06:12 in renewed armor of love

06:15 and loosened awareness of who we truly are.

06:19 Rwandans.

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