Rwandans on Monday celebrated the 22nd anniversary of the fall of the previous regime in 1994, with President Paul Kagame stressing the importance of dignity in the country’s development.
Addressing a rally at Rweru, a small rural village about 50 kilometres from Kigali in southeastern Rwanda, Kagame noted that Rwandans must be the ones to own and shape the country’s future.
“True liberation means dignity; it means no one should ever decide for us who we should be,” the Rwandan leader said, after inaugurating a newly built model Village which has a school, a health post and homes for 400 poor families who were recently relocated from high-risk zones.
The liberation war started in October 1990, after the former rebel group and current ruling Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF), launched a major attack on Rwanda from Uganda with a force of 7,000 fighters.
About one million people were killed during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
RPF forces defeated the then Rwandan government forces in Kigali on 4 July.
