[afro-nets] Remembering Rwanda (4)

[Valentine Ngwa <vcngwa@hotmail.com>]

Remembering Rwanda (4)
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Nicole,

I really hope that the African Renaissance is a reality. Ten
years is too short a time for us to understand how our so called
brothers and sisters can sit down, plan, import machetes and
slaughter almost a million of their neighbours, rape many and
plunder their property. I wonder how long it takes for the memo-
ries of such barbaric acts to go away; especially so when there
are many things to remind the victims including HIV.

Rather than Africa taking a leaf from Rwanda, we see neighbour-
ing DR Congo in anarchy, Sudan on the verge of their own geno-
cide and my native Cameroon under a very uneasy calm; which les-
sons have we learnt? These issues get difficult to comprehend
and at times one is tempted to wonder whether such things were
meant to be.

After all, history teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
once they have exhausted all other alternatives. In all these,
you will always hear our people in their usually escapist ten-
dency say 'The International Community failed us!' They should
rather say how they have failed themselves. I weep for Mother
Africa!

Valentine Ngwa, MD
Bradford, UK
mailto:vcngwa@hotmail.com
Homepage http://www.Valngwa.5u.com