With machetes, tapered screwdrivers and spears were hundreds of thousands of members of the ethnic minority tutsis killed in Rwanda from the early summer of 1994.
Although it is Sunday it is 25 years since the start of the genocide, many have not yet been held responsible for about 800,000 deaths and countless other atrocities.
It takes the investigators in specialenheden GFTU, the Rwandan device for the detection of fled after the genocide. GFTU has issued 1012 international warrants for the arrest of suspects in 32 countries.
Justice must be done. People must be arrested and a judge, either to be acquitted or convicted, says Faustin Nkusi, who is the spokesman for the national prosecutor’s office, which oversees the unit’s work, to the AFP.
Many of the fugitives are supposed to have sought refuge in other african countries. But some are also believed to be hiding in Europe, north America and Australia.
Employees working to make the scene behind the memorial ready prior to the selection of the 25 anniversary of the genocide. Photo: AFP
the Massacre was initiated after an aircraft with the then president, hutuen Juvenal Habyarimanas, was shot down, just as it did to landing.
It came to pass 6. april 1994, and it was that really ignited the anger of the hutu, who for decades had felt worse treated than the tutsis.
By dawn the next day went hutus in the streets, and in about 100 days was the killing of the agenda. When the killings finally ceased, fled many of the perpetrators out of the country.
Journalist and author Øjvind Kyrø still remember the aprildag, he crossed the border to the central african country, to cover the massacre.
There was a pervasive sweet smell of rotten corpses in the air.
Everywhere I saw groups of men who went with their machetes in hand on the way out to beat the tutsi to death. Around on the hills was smoke clouds up from the cottages, where they had already killed, he says.
On his first day in Rwanda, as Kyrø call a slaughterhouse, he was stopped by armed men who still had fresh blood oozing down his arms.
Kyrø is the Danish and not the tutsi, so he was allowed to get rid.
– I’ve covered 20 wars, coups d’état and civil wars. But Rwanda was the worst I have ever experienced. It was then the chief says everything was just fine Kyrø.
Back in the stand in the day of a divided Rwanda, however, is doing well economically, and where the safety is high.
It says associate professor Simon Turner, who researches, among other things genocide at Copenhagen University.
– the Hutus and the tutsis may well work together in the day. They do not trust each other, and they do not dare to say too much to each other. But they bypassed.
– Furthermore, there are significantly fewer people who get married across ethnic divisions than before the genocide. It’s funny, because officially neither the existence of the ethnic groups or discrimination. But the genocide has created a distance.