International community “merciless” - Kagame

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has accused the international community of being “unjust and merciless” towards his country. In a speech on Saturday to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1994 genocide, broadcast by Rwandan radio, he recalled that the massacres - in which at least 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed - took place “before the eyes of the international community”. Today, he said, the international community was accusing Rwanda of being in the DRC to plunder its wealth, rather than for security reasons. “We went to Congo for the sake of Rwandan security,” he said. “We went there to make sure that what you see now [memories of the genocide] does not recur. I am saying this because the world is unjust and merciless...They [international community] see us as being in Congo in a search for minerals, and to kill people.” Kagame accused the international community of “not caring”. “They would not care if we kept quiet, sat here and waited for people to come and cut the throats of our people, so that they can later bring rice, sugar and food to feed the injured and survivors,” he said.