statement by ac genocide canada december 9th 2022
STATEMENT
On this day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the
Prevention of this Crime;
AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA;
Taking note of the November 30th, 2022 statement by the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of
Genocide acknowledging that "many individuals involved in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis in
Rwanda fled to Eastern DRC, forming armed groups such as the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of
Rwanda / Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FDLR);"
Recalling that the UN Security Council Report S/1998/777 ((pages 10-24) , established that cooperation
agreements have been signed between the FDLR and another negative force, the CNDD/FDD
organization with a view to pursue the genocide against the Tutsi in Burundi and Rwanda;
Considering that the CNDD/FDD organization that has been ruling Burundi since August 2005, was
created by the FRODEBU party, which was itself found by the International Commission of Inquiry for
Burundi appointed by the United Nations on August 28, 1995, to have perpetrated genocide against the
Tutsi of Burundi in October 1993 and in the years that followed;
Expressing grave concern that although the UN Report S/1996/682, paragraphs 483-496, have
recommended an International Criminal Tribunal for Burundi, more than 26 years later, no one has been
brought to justice to respond for that attempt to annihilate the Tutsi of Burundi;
Recalling further that it is the unpunished perpetrators of the genocide against the Tutsi in Burundi who
are re-writing the national history in the framework of the so-called Truth and Reconciliation
Commission, whose revisionist agenda, together with its distorted methodology of representing the Tutsi
by impostors pretending to be members of that community, have been denounced both nationally and
internationally;
Gravely concerned about the regime’s relentless persecution against organizations working to preserve the
memory of victims of the Tutsi genocide; in the past, the incumbent authorities, had compelled them to
purge from their appellation any reference to the sites of memory related to the Tutsi genocide; recently,
the Burundi Interior Ministry had sadistically invited the leaders of the aforementioned associations to
lay a wreath on the mausoleum dedicated to one of the leaders of the FRODEBU organization, which
perpetrated the Tutsi genocide in October 1993 and in the years that followed;
Noting that in the current context whereby a militia that was duly identified by the UN as having
perpetrated genocide against the Tutsi, is conducting a so-called Truth and Reconciliation Commission,
revisionism and denialism of atrocities perpetrated against the Tutsi are on a steady rise and likely to lead
to the total negation of the Tutsi genocide if nothing is done to stop it;
FOR ALL THOSE REASONS:
AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA pays tribute to the memory of all persons who were killed because of their
ethnic, racial or religious identity;
AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA pays particular tribute to the victims of the genocide against the Tutsi of
Burundi as their chances of obtaining justice are critically compromised by the presence in office of the
unpunished and unrepentant genocide perpetrators;
AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA insistently demands to the UN Special Advisor in Charge of Genocide
Prevention to:
- avert the total negation of the October 1993 genocide against the Tutsi in Burundi, which was
duly investigated by a UN-appointed commission, by adding it to the list of the genocides that we
commemorate yearly;
- urge the incumbent Burundi authorities to stop their ongoing revisionist plan in the guise of a
partisan Truth and Reconciliation Commission, whose investigations and excavation works should
be put on hold until the United Nation appoint an international, truly neutral commission to
complete that task;
- note that we cannot condemn the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda / Forces
démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FDLR) responsible for the 1994 Genocide against the
Tutsis in Rwanda, while at the same time we approve that their accomplices, the CNDD/FDD
organization ruling Burundi since 2005, with whom they have even signed cooperation
agreements, can stay in office and pretend to be working for the restoration of peace in DRC
where the said FDLR has been laying havoc for more than two decades now.
- to use her influence to bring the United Nations to finally set up an international tribunal for
Burundi as recommended by the UN-appointed Commission of Inquiry (Report S/1996/682,
paragraph 496)
Done at Toronto, on December 9th, 2022.
AC GENOCIDE CANADA Secretary,
Dr. Emmanuel Nkurunziza
On this day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the
Prevention of this Crime;
AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA;
Taking note of the November 30th, 2022 statement by the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of
Genocide acknowledging that "many individuals involved in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis in
Rwanda fled to Eastern DRC, forming armed groups such as the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of
Rwanda / Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FDLR);"
Recalling that the UN Security Council Report S/1998/777 ((pages 10-24) , established that cooperation
agreements have been signed between the FDLR and another negative force, the CNDD/FDD
organization with a view to pursue the genocide against the Tutsi in Burundi and Rwanda;
Considering that the CNDD/FDD organization that has been ruling Burundi since August 2005, was
created by the FRODEBU party, which was itself found by the International Commission of Inquiry for
Burundi appointed by the United Nations on August 28, 1995, to have perpetrated genocide against the
Tutsi of Burundi in October 1993 and in the years that followed;
Expressing grave concern that although the UN Report S/1996/682, paragraphs 483-496, have
recommended an International Criminal Tribunal for Burundi, more than 26 years later, no one has been
brought to justice to respond for that attempt to annihilate the Tutsi of Burundi;
Recalling further that it is the unpunished perpetrators of the genocide against the Tutsi in Burundi who
are re-writing the national history in the framework of the so-called Truth and Reconciliation
Commission, whose revisionist agenda, together with its distorted methodology of representing the Tutsi
by impostors pretending to be members of that community, have been denounced both nationally and
internationally;
Gravely concerned about the regime’s relentless persecution against organizations working to preserve the
memory of victims of the Tutsi genocide; in the past, the incumbent authorities, had compelled them to
purge from their appellation any reference to the sites of memory related to the Tutsi genocide; recently,
the Burundi Interior Ministry had sadistically invited the leaders of the aforementioned associations to
lay a wreath on the mausoleum dedicated to one of the leaders of the FRODEBU organization, which
perpetrated the Tutsi genocide in October 1993 and in the years that followed;
Noting that in the current context whereby a militia that was duly identified by the UN as having
perpetrated genocide against the Tutsi, is conducting a so-called Truth and Reconciliation Commission,
revisionism and denialism of atrocities perpetrated against the Tutsi are on a steady rise and likely to lead
to the total negation of the Tutsi genocide if nothing is done to stop it;
FOR ALL THOSE REASONS:
AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA pays tribute to the memory of all persons who were killed because of their
ethnic, racial or religious identity;
AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA pays particular tribute to the victims of the genocide against the Tutsi of
Burundi as their chances of obtaining justice are critically compromised by the presence in office of the
unpunished and unrepentant genocide perpetrators;
AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA insistently demands to the UN Special Advisor in Charge of Genocide
Prevention to:
- avert the total negation of the October 1993 genocide against the Tutsi in Burundi, which was
duly investigated by a UN-appointed commission, by adding it to the list of the genocides that we
commemorate yearly;
- urge the incumbent Burundi authorities to stop their ongoing revisionist plan in the guise of a
partisan Truth and Reconciliation Commission, whose investigations and excavation works should
be put on hold until the United Nation appoint an international, truly neutral commission to
complete that task;
- note that we cannot condemn the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda / Forces
démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FDLR) responsible for the 1994 Genocide against the
Tutsis in Rwanda, while at the same time we approve that their accomplices, the CNDD/FDD
organization ruling Burundi since 2005, with whom they have even signed cooperation
agreements, can stay in office and pretend to be working for the restoration of peace in DRC
where the said FDLR has been laying havoc for more than two decades now.
- to use her influence to bring the United Nations to finally set up an international tribunal for
Burundi as recommended by the UN-appointed Commission of Inquiry (Report S/1996/682,
paragraph 496)
Done at Toronto, on December 9th, 2022.
AC GENOCIDE CANADA Secretary,
Dr. Emmanuel Nkurunziza