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The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi claimed more than one million lives as the international community watched on.
MP Oda Gasinzigwa raised the matter as the Assembly debated a report on the implementation of the bloc’s peace and security strategy soon after it was presented by her compatriot, MP Fatuma Ndangiza, Chairperson of EALA’s Committee on Regional Affairs and Conflict Resolution.
She said: “I wish to, once again, remind this Community and the Assembly about the role we have on prevention of genocide because the problem or challenge of genocide is something at the heart of East Africans and we need to keep talking about it and ensure it doesn’t happen again.”
Gasinzigwa noted that it is unfortunate that...