STATEMENT ON THE 48th COMMEMORATION OF THE TUTSI 1972 GENOCIDE

ASSOCIATION BURUNDAISE DE LUTTE CONTRE LE GÉNOCIDE
AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA  

April 29th is the day when all Burundians, and anyone who abhors genocide, commemorate the start of systematic massacres of ethnic Tutsis in Burundi in 1972. There is ample material evidence of the genocidal plan to annihilate ethnic Tutsis in Burundi, among which the call by UBU organization (Umugambwe w'Abakozi b’Uburundi or Burundi Workers Party).

On this 48th commemoration,

AC GENOCIDE CANADA bows to the memory of all Tutsi victims whom the militiamen loyal to the UBU organization murdered merely because they were ethnic Tutsis. AC GENOCIDE CANADA bows also to the memory of the innocent Hutus who died at the hands of the UBU genocidal militiamen because they had refused to join in the murder of the Tutsi, or who disappeared in the framework of the repression.

AC GENOCIDE CANADA recalls that owing to the absence of any neutral inquiry, the UBU genocidal ideology has been perpetuated by the organization’s offspring, namely, PALIPEHUTU, FRODEBU, CNDD-FDD, FNL, and CNL.

AC GENOCIDE CANADA recalls further that the incumbent regime cannot lead a credible inquiry or, least of all, do justice to the victims of the 1972 genocide against the Tutsi. AC GENOCIDE CANADA holds for living evidence of that incapacity the government-appointed TRC, whose President has already proven his unconditional subservience to the ruling CNDD-FDD organization when, as Head of the National Electoral Commission, he endorsed the results of the rigged elections of 2010 and 2015.

AC GENOCIDE CANADA encourages witnesses of the 1972 genocide against the Tutsis and the survivors, to come forward and share their stories and any material evidence purporting to their unfortunate experiences, in order to curb the ongoing falsification campaign that the incumbent regime and its affiliated organizations disseminate from within and outside the country’s borders.

AC GENOCIDE CANADA takes advantage of this opportunity to strongly condemn the ruling CNDD-FDD party which, in its sustained efforts to obliterate material evidence of the genocide that it perpetrated against the Tutsi before accessing to power, has repeatedly launched its Imbonerakure militias in intimidation and persecution campaigns against the survivors of the Tutsi genocide who are living in IDP camps.

AC GENOCIDE CANADA invites all political organizations of Burundi that are not led by genocide perpetrators or suspects, to include in their agenda a draft law that will criminalize genocide denial.

AC GENOCIDE CANADA calls upon the international community to free themselves from the manipulative grip that the propagandist machine of the CNDD-FDD regime has subjected them to, and to henceforth stop limiting themselves to the repression in their appreciation of that 1972 tragedy whose master-minders and perpetrators remain as unidentified as unpunished.

Done at Toronto, on April 29th, 2020.

Emmanuel Nkurunziza

[Signed]

Secretary, AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA

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