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Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by bilms(m): 1:16pm On Sep 24, 2017
Never again: Rwanda genocide and Biafra agitation
By Abdulrazaq Hamzat

After the genocide in 1994, Rwanda continued to exist. In remembering its dead after the tragedy, which claimed 16% of the population, a museum was created in their honour with a bold inscription: ‘’Never Again’’. This is the best that has happened to those victims of human cruelty.

With the above understanding, it has become imperative for us at the Foundation for Peace Professionals to redirect a certain misconception about the Rwanda genocide that is being thrown around by analysts, when they comment on the implication of ethnic based secessionist hate campaigns in Southeast Nigeria, which if not carefully handled, could lead to a similar thing as experienced in Rwanda.

While most commentators are right in quickly referring to the Rwanda experience in other to caution agitators on the consequences of their actions, it is important to bring us to another perspective that is yet to be properly looked at and fully appreciated.

In 1994, when the ethnic based hate campaign began in Rwanda, the total population of the country was just a little over six million.

Hate campaigns by Hutu agitators against the Tutsi eventually led to genocide, which claimed almost one million lives in just about 100 days. The casualty figure is over 16 per cent of the total population of the country.

Nigeria today has more than 180 million people and 16 % of it is a little below 30 million.

What happened in Rwanda that year was the gruesome murder of innocent and defenseless 16 per cent of its total population due to perceived feeling of marginalization and expectation that the mass murder of another ethnic group may possibly lead to secession.

The question we must all ask is; “What happened to Rwanda after losing 16 per cent of its population in mindless killings?

Were the expectations of those who led the hate campaign fulfilled?

What does the one million lost lives amounted to?”

The answer to the above questions remained a united Rwanda. It was too late, when those who expected division as a result of the mass murder discovered that the killing of their fellow country men and women would not make a country divide. Those who also thought that instigating hatred against fellow country people would help them in their quest for separation were also disappointed.

This points to the fact that, if you promote hatred against other ethnic groups in your country for whatever reason, you have to be ready to live with the hate, because it won’t help you fulfill your separatist agenda.

In a report by the UK Guardian to commemorate 20 years of the Rwanda genocide, victims were reported to have said they now live in the same country with those who killed their families.

“The killers are our neighbors now,” one respondent said.

Furthermore, one of the perpetrators of the hate campaign and killing, Thomas, said he learned a lesson from the killing. He said: “You find out that killing is not a solution. We killed thinking we would get something and we found out it only brought misery.”

What they didn’t want to do before, which is tolerance, is what they have learned now to do the hard way. The people are now learning to tolerate the people they hate, though difficult, but necessarily.

After the conclusion of the Rwandan genocide, the new Rwandan government was having difficulty prosecuting approximately 130,000 alleged perpetrators of the genocide.

What must be understood here is that, in this 21st century, any secessionist group that gains notoriety with hate speech is as good as a nuisance and misplaced agitation. It will never achieve its aim.

Rwanda teaches us that, not even the death of 16 per cent of the total population will change this fact.

In other words, you can instigate hate as much as you want in your agitation, you can even lead the country to war and genocide, but one fact is clear, you will never achieve anything. Not the separation, not the fulfillment. So why promote hatred among people on the basis of quest for separation?

Additional lesson learned from Rwanda is that, instigating hatred against fellow human beings on the basis of ethnicity will not be rewarded by the global community. Hate speech is a crime in international law. The world didn’t reward Hutus in Rwanda, it won’t reward any other agitators in any part of the world.

The Nigerian civil war, which claimed about three million lives, also offers another lesson. Despite losing that number of citizens, the aims of the promoters of the war were never achieved. The global community will not aid personal ambition of individuals or groups at the expense of the general good.

It is on this basis that we are calling on the leaders in Southeast region to prevail on their sons and daughters to allow reason prevail. The need for peace cannot be over emphasized. All those who succeeded in their agitation across the world only did because of their decency and peaceful approach. The world saw that though they are agitating for a just cause, but did it decently within the confines of the international standards. The same cannot be said of the agitation in the Southeast. I appeal that we shouldn’t allow Nigeria become a 21st century Rwanda, which only offered 16% of its population to a futile quest. Never again.

Abdulrazaq Hamzat is the Executive Director, Foundation for Peace Professionals.
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/prof-brainy/never-again-rwanda-genocide-and-biafra-agitation/214611.html

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Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by eshietIntrepid(m): 1:17pm On Sep 24, 2017
Is self determination a crime?

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Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by sarrki(m): 1:20pm On Sep 24, 2017
eshietIntrepid:
Is self determination a crime?

Self determination that is founded on hatred and bigotry is crime

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Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by eshietIntrepid(m): 1:22pm On Sep 24, 2017
sarrki:


Self determination that is founded on hatred and bigotry is crime
in other word you can't survive a day without them? Parasite is deadly to the body

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Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by bilms(m): 1:24pm On Sep 24, 2017
hate speech is a crime.........instigation is a crime......threat of violence is a crime......disturbing peace is a crime..disruption of public order is a crime...violating the law is a crime....

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Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by PehaKaso: 1:24pm On Sep 24, 2017
shocked
Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by PehaKaso: 1:24pm On Sep 24, 2017
Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by bilms(m): 1:25pm On Sep 24, 2017
sarrki:


Self determination that is founded on hatred and bigotry is crime

True
Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by Sprumbabafather: 1:26pm On Sep 24, 2017
How about the Biafran genocide of 1967-70 and the recent Biafran genocide of 2017.

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Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by FeloniousFelon: 1:27pm On Sep 24, 2017
Biafrans have been at the receiving end of Jihadist motivated and state ochestrated genocide since 1945.


Where this afonja found a way to relate Biafran agitation to how the Rwanda genocide sprung up beats my imagination

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Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by mazimee(m): 1:27pm On Sep 24, 2017
sarrki:


Self determination that is founded on hatred and bigotry is crime

I thought you said they are inconsequential? Why are you desperate to keep them?

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Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by capatainrambo: 1:27pm On Sep 24, 2017
stupid almajiri



Nigerians don't love Nigeria period








yeyee country no kiddin o
who d usless country ep mtchewww

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Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by Sprumbabafather: 1:28pm On Sep 24, 2017
sarrki:


Self determination that is founded on hatred and bigotry is crime

But those who go about from farm to farm killing innocent people are not criminals?

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Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by FeloniousFelon: 1:28pm On Sep 24, 2017
bilms:
hate speech is a crime.........instigation is a crime......threat of violence is a crime......disturbing peace is a crime..disruption of public order is a crime...violating the law is a crime....


And your Buhari is the grand patron of hate speech

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Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by bilms(m): 1:30pm On Sep 24, 2017
Ok
Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by frankdoz23: 1:30pm On Sep 24, 2017
sarrki:


Self determination that is founded on hatred and bigotry is crime
then pack and go to your miserable enclave if you dislike hatred and bigotry! Biafra or death.

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Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by PehaKaso: 1:31pm On Sep 24, 2017
bilms:
hate speech is a crime.........instigation is a crime......threat of violence is a crime......disturbing peace is a crime..disruption of public order is a crime...violating the law is a crime....

Where were you, back in year 2011, when Corps members, Christians and Southerners were slaughtered in their thousands in the North, just because a Muslim lost in the presidential elections?

Fast forward to 2015, where were you when the threat of soaking both the dogs and the baboons in blood was hanging on all Nigerians?

Your HYPOCRISY has been noticed, boy.

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Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by FeloniousFelon: 1:31pm On Sep 24, 2017
Sprumbabafather:
How about the Biafran genocide of 1967-70 and the recent Biafran genocide of 2017.

My brother, once you realise we are battling pure evil then you will know why you can not reason with these Muslims.

These people only understand violence and total submission.

War is peace to them and peace means war to them.

We are waging a war for our sanity and conscience.

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Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by FeloniousFelon: 1:37pm On Sep 24, 2017
They are redefining morality and reality to suit their evil regime.

The aggressor is the victim and the victim the aggressor.

I am reminded by this quote below whenever Lai Mohammed makes one of his incredulous lies:

"Political correctness is communist propaganda. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to."

—Theodore Dalrymple, “Our Culture, What’s Left Of It”

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Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by Kazim88: 1:43pm On Sep 24, 2017
bilms:
hate speech is a crime.........instigation is a crime......threat of violence is a crime......disturbing peace is a crime..disruption of public order is a crime...violating the law is a crime....

Buhari is guilty of all you just mentioned.

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Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by bilms(m): 3:02pm On Sep 24, 2017
Sprumbabafather:
How about the Biafran genocide of 1967-70 and the recent Biafran genocide of 2017.

?
Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by bilms(m): 3:03pm On Sep 24, 2017
FeloniousFelon:
Biafrans have been at the receiving end of Jihadist motivated and state ochestrated genocide since 1945.


Where this afonja found a way to relate Biafran agitation to how the Rwanda genocide sprung up beats my imagination

?
Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by bilms(m): 3:04pm On Sep 24, 2017
capatainrambo:
stupid almajiri



Nigerians don't love Nigeria period








yeyee country no kiddin o
who d usless country ep mtchewww

It epp me. It can epp you too, if only you can open your mind
Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by Desyner: 3:20pm On Sep 24, 2017
sarrki:


Self determination that is founded on hatred and bigotry is crime
What do you mean this hatred and bigotry? You are speculating mr man.

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Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by bilms(m): 4:31pm On Sep 24, 2017
Hum
Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by bilms(m): 8:18am On Sep 25, 2017
tongue
Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by OjukwuWarBird: 8:21am On Sep 25, 2017
After dividing the country into 97% and 5% they still want One Nigeria to continue




A true Christian ethnic group can never


1) force or beg a Muslim ethnic group to share the same country with them.


2) depend on the resources of a Muslim ethnic group for survival.


Why can't we.?


Because we know that our God aka Yahweh is always there for us.

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Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by YourCoffin: 8:29am On Sep 25, 2017
sarrki:


Self determination that is founded on hatred and bigotry is crime

Your president started it.

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Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by bilms(m): 12:47pm On Sep 25, 2017
Hum
Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by Ojiofor: 12:53pm On Sep 25, 2017
sarrki:


Self determination that is founded on hatred and bigotry is crime

Was Ojukwu's self determination agıtation based on hatred and bigotry too?

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Re: Never Again: Rwanda Genocide And Biafra Agitation By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat by bilms(m): 6:26pm On Sep 25, 2017
Learning
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