{"id":7982,"date":"2022-08-08T17:20:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T17:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alst.org\/?p=7982"},"modified":"2024-03-12T06:29:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T06:29:22","slug":"a-chronicle-of-hope-revisiting-the-genocide-against-the-tutsi-in-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/news\/events-en\/a-chronicle-of-hope-revisiting-the-genocide-against-the-tutsi-in-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chronicle of Hope\u2014Revisiting the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, Georgia, on April 4, 2019, the program \u201cA Chronicle of Hope\u2014Revisiting the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda\u201d marked the 25th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On April 7, 1994, the tiny African country of Rwanda exploded in genocide. Some 800,000 died during 100 days of murderous violence directed against the entire Tutsi ethnic group, as well as politically moderate Hutu, and Hutu who refused to kill or who tried to rescue Tutsi. About 70 percent of the Tutsi in Rwanda were killed, many by their neighbors or workmates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenz Reibling, adjunct professor at Boston College, spoke on the utter collapse of social institutions (academia, the media, and the churches) during the Nazi genocide of the Jews and the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four genocide survivors, Charles and Angelique Rutaganira and Tharcisse and Chantal Seminega, told how they evaded death at the hands of killers because they were rescued by Hutu Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses who risked their lives to save them. The survivors related how the Rwandan Witness community held to their nonviolent and apolitical Christian ethic, refusing to participate in the genocide and taking extreme risks to shelter Tutsi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Arnold-Liebster Foundation and the Laura and Lorenz Reibling Family Foundation sponsored the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Tharcisse Seminega’s new memoir No Greater Love: How My Family Survived the Genocide in Rwanda<\/em> was published June 1, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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