Republic of Rwanda’s High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador Christophe Bazivamo, has called on African youths, particularly Nigerians, not to confine the incident of the 1994 genocide against Tutsi to textbooks, but use it as a catalyst for nation-building, a cohesive society and tolerance for one another.

Bazivamo observed that under colonial rule, Belgium’s policies of social engineering introduced racial classifications and imposed hierarchies that systematically fractured the Rwandan society, stressing that the role of certain missionary groups in entrenching the divisions was also part of Africa’s historical record.

“In just 100 days, between April and July 1994, over one million innocent men, women and children were targeted because they were Tutsi. They were slaughtered in one of the most horrific genocides in human history. Schools were emptied of students and turned into places of horror and indifference”

Earlier, the Vice-Chancellor of Babcock University, Prof. Ademola Tayo, noted that the genocide was a reminder of the evils of intolerance, of man’s inhumanity to man.