The Minister of Culture asked the youth to get to know Rwanda, to learn from everything they are doing and to fight using the weapons available today so that the genocide that killed more than a million Tutsis will not happen again.
He repeated this in an interview with RBA that focused on the role of youth in building a united Rwanda. While Rwanda and the world as a whole are in the week dedicated to remembering and bowing to the innocents of the Genocide against the Tutsi in 1994, Bamporiki Eduard returned to what made Rwandans equal, they celebrated the ritual of Ndumunyarwanda and lived as brothers.
He told the youth that in everything they do, they should think about Rwanda and take care of it and fight for it. He said, “One of the most important things a Rwandan child needs is to know Rwanda. To know Rwanda in three parts, to know Rwanda as a giant country, to know Rwanda was a country that is being played and taken to death row as a dying country, and to know Rwanda the Inkotanyi died for. Those three things are cotton that will help a Rwandans in any struggle or journey they may have. He added that nowadays young people are often busy looking for a living and studying more and forget about Rwanda and that is what makes them able to calm down and do all that.
The minister asked them that even though they are doing all this, they should not forget who gave birth to them because they are the Rwanda of tomorrow. He said, “There are times when we forget about Rwanda, getting good education is fine, getting a lot of money is fine, but one day you will be the president of this country, you will be a minister of this country, you will be a mother who cares for you in this country, you will be an educator in this country you will be a merchant in this country.”
He went on to tell the youth that the day they will be the leaders of the country, they will have the task of training their children and teaching them the way to go. And in order for them to achieve this, they must first prepare for it in advance.
The leader of Rwanda We Want, Murenzi Tristan, who participated in the interview asked his fellow youth to always be Rwandan in themselves, avoiding what separates them and thinking about what unites them.
He said, “Let’s continue those plans to find our families, let’s continue those plans to find our future, but think if there is a time when this money reaches and it will be useless as long as the nationalism is lost, that’s why we have to find money but put effort into building Rwanda and give it enough strength. so that what happened will not happen again.
Bamporiki concluded by asking the youth not to cooperate with those who mock Rwanda as if they would die with it, but to learn more about it and to build it by leaving the tradition of Rwanda that will make it live in peace.
