In this video, we see Westerners, Belgian soldiers, armed, appearing more focused on evacuating their own nationals than on the fate of the Tutsi.
They selectively prioritize their own citizens, while others document scenes of horror: Tutsi terrified, starving, already on the brink of death.
They knew what would follow their departure.
Yet they left anyway.
Hours later, Interahamwe militias massacred those they had abandoned, a pattern tragically similar to what occurred at the ETO in Kicukiro.
Belgian justice itself has acknowledged the link between this abandonment and the killings that followed, evidence that the risks were known, yet another choice was made: to leave the Tutsi exposed to extermination.
However, this acknowledgment often contrasts with a broader institutional posture which, over the years up to the present day, has not always reflected full accountability or a profound reckoning with the consequences of these actions in Rwanda.
Today, those who once abandoned the Tutsi to extermination are often the same voices that now lecture Rwanda on how to manage its national security, even calling for the lifting of its defensive measures before the neutralization of the FDLR is addressed, despite its continued threat.
The same blindness. The same irresponsibility. We have already seen where this leads.
We will no longer accept lessons shaped by abandonment and failure.
Memory is clear.
The Genocide against the Tutsi remains an unspeakable and immeasurable tragedy, but it has taught us this : we will never again entrust our security to others.
As our President recently stated: we will not allow anyone to kill us twice.
Never.
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