Recently, a number of media reported that felicien KABUGA, a suspect in the "Rwandan genocide", was arrested on the outskirts of Paris, France.
Kabuga, 84, a former Rwandan businessman, has been wanted by the international justice system for 25 years on suspicion of involvement in and promotion of the 1994 "Rwandan genocide."
This incident has aroused the world's historical remembrance of the "Rwandan genocide".
The Republic of Rwanda (Republika y'u Rwanda) is located in central and eastern Africa, bordering Tanzania, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, with a land area of 26,338 square kilometers.
Rwanda's main ethnic groups are Hutu, Tutsi and Twa.
In 1990, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a Tutsi refugee organization living in Uganda, broke out into a civil war with Hutu government forces.
Under mediation and pressure from neighboring countries, the two sides signed a peace agreement in August 1993 to end the civil war.
However, extremist forces at the top of Rwanda's government are deeply unhappy with the outcome, believing that President Juvenal Habyallimana has made too many concessions in the negotiations.
On 6 April 1994, the aircraft carrying Rwandan President Juvenal Habijalimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntariamira were shot down inside Rwanda, killing both presidents at the same time.
The incident immediately caused a sensation throughout the country, triggering suspicion and bloody revenge by the Hutu against the Tutsi.
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On the 7th, the Presidential Guard, composed of Hutu soldiers, killed Rwandan female prime minister, Tutsi Uvirinji Imzana and three ministers.
Instigated by local media and radio, Hutu soldiers, militiamen and civilians, armed with guns, machetes and sharpened wooden sticks, carried out a large-scale, three-month-long violent attack, resulting in the massacre of some 500,000 to 1 million people. Between 250,000 and 500,000 women have been raped.
The vast majority of the victims are Tutsi, as well as some Hutu who sympathize with the Tutsi.
In July, RPF troops counterattacked, entered the capital Kigali, defeated the Hutus government and seized power.
As a result, some 2 million Hutus, including some of the massacre participants, fled to neighbouring Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zaire (present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo) for fear of Tutsi reprisals and panic.
During this period, thousands of people died in refugee camps as a result of cholera and dysentery.
Rwanda was originally an underdeveloped agro-pastoral country, unable to provide for food for a long time, and was identified by the United Nations as one of the least developed countries in the world.
This civil war and massacre brought great disasters to the country, making it worse and the economy on the verge of collapse.
A large number of people have lost their lives, equivalent to 1/9 of Rwanda's total population. This has also led to significant demographic changes, with many women widowed, children accounting for about 40 per cent of the country's population, and some 95,000 infants and young children who survive but are orphaned.
In addition, the large number of Hutu extremists who have fled to neighbouring countries has also created destabilizing factors in those countries.
Subsequently, the United Nations Security Council decided to establish the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda to prosecute those responsible for genocide and other serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in Rwanda between 1 January 1994 and 31 December 1994 and Rwandan citizens responsible for genocide and such criminal offences committed in neighbouring countries during that period.
Since then, due to the cumbersome procedures and practical operations of the Tribunal, coupled with the complexity of the case itself, the trial of the case has lasted up to ten years.
Subsequently, the Tribunal announced the sentencing of 6 suspects in cases involving the Rwandan genocide.
Among them, former Rwandan minister Pauline Nyiramasuhuko and her son were sentenced to life in prison on charges such as genocide and crimes against humanity.
The other four were sentenced to 25, 30, 35 and life sentences, respectively.
In December 2003, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution designating 7 April as the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda.
Un Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon once said in his statement that the genocide in Rwanda is the darkest chapter in human history.
Some literary and artistic works also reflect this tragic event from different angles. For example, the movie "Hotel Rwanda", "Sometime in April", "Killing Forbidden Zone" (aka "Hound") and so on.
Human nature has both good and evil.
It is inevitable that there will be dark and sinful events in the human world, and there is no shortage of human light that flashes in sin.