World leaders cautioned against genocide as UN mourn Rwandan victims

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A 14-year-old boy, Rumanzi, stands in front of rows of human skulls outside the Nitarama church near the town of Nyamata, where some 600 people were killed during the civil conflict that began in April. Rumanzi survived the massacre by hiding beneath the corpses for two days.

As the world officially remembers the genocidal murder of 800,000 Rwandans in 1994, UN has warned that ethnic cleansing and mass atrocities continued to blight humanity.

On Rwandan genocide 24th anniversary, UN challenged the world to muster the will to prevent new atrocities and called for sharper action to prevent such wholesale violations.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in his statement, said “states have a fundamental responsibility to protect their populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity”.

“It is imperative that we unite to prevent such…



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