Finally, the justice has been done to a Rwandan army major who has been sentenced to 20 years incarceration for the murder of ten Belgian peacemakers in the 1994 genocide that took the lives of more than 800,000 in 100 days.
Rwandan genocide, a scar on the humanity, began in 1994 with the shooting down of an aircraft carrying the former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, President of Burundi and Rwanda’s army chief of staff.
A scar not only on humanity but also on international community that include France, Belgium, the United States and United Nations in particular for withdrawing their forces from the tumultuous country during the crises. UN inaction drew widespread criticism as they declined to prevent the butchery - ad nauseam. Had UN peacekeeping forces stayed on the course, thousands of lives would have been saved.
Have these guilty people met the fate that they deserve for or are they mere the victims of dark forces? What should be the punishment to such a heinous crime? On the other hand, will punishment soothe the sufferings that were inflicted on the innocent people?
A disgusting incident in the history and something that everyone in not only Rwanda but also world over want to forget but could not.
