Fight for your dignity – Kagame

President Kagame and the First Lady, Jeannette, lay a wreath at a Genocide memorial site in Nyamata, Bugesera District, yesterday.

BUGESERA - President Paul Kagame has called upon the Rwandan people to guard their dignity and emphasized that Rwandans won’t beg it (dignity) from anyone, as he blasted certain elements in the west for their arrogance, referring particulary to the indictments by a Spanish judge, Fernando Andreu Merelles, against Rwandan military officers.
Speaking yesterday during a function to mark the fourteenth anniversary of the Tutsi Genocide held in Nyamata Sector, Bugesera District in the Eastern Province, Kagame labelled Merelles’s indictments as western arrogance and said that the west could not determine the fate of Rwanda.
“There is a lot of arrogance in this; some people in the developed world think they have control of other people’s lives, that is criminal arrogance,” he said.
Merelles, early this year indicted 40 senior Rwandan military officers for alleged crimes against humanity after the 1994 Genocide, but that action has attracted widespread criticism, with people wondering why a judge would want to portray the people who stopped the Genocide as the ones who committed it. for more. http://www.newtimes.co.rw/