Uganda, March 29 -- The Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda took lives of more than a million Rwandans. The genocide was organised and executed in full view of the International Community, which stood idle and watched as it unfolded.

It was not an accident, but rather a culmination of decades old divisive and ethnicity-based ideology of hatred. These divisions began during the colonial period in Rwanda and ultimately resulted in the planning of the genocide against the Tutsi in 1994, carried out by the National Revolutionary Movement for Development (MRND) regime.

The genocide was put to an end by the Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF) in July 1994. Rwanda's reconstruction journey started with the establishment of the Government of National Un...