Rwanda: Catholic Church's Celebration of Convicted Priests Is Genocide Ideology, Scholars Say

[trotsky]

http://allafrica.com/stories/201607110074.html

Genocide scholars have likened the forthcoming Silver Jubilee celebration that the Catholic Church of Kabgayi Diocese is set to hold for its two priests convicted of genocide crimes during the genocide against the Tutsi in 1994, to genocide ideology and minimisation of genocide.

On July 16, the Kabgayi Diocese will hold a series of religious event at Mushishiro Parish including the 25-year jubilee celebration for its six priests, who include two genocide convicts Joseph Ndagijimana and Emmanuel Rukundo, according to the invitation by the Diocese.

Rukundo was convicted and handed a 25-year sentence by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 2009, while Joseph Ndagijimana was convicted and handed life sentence by Gacaca in the same year.

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The Executive Secretary of the National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG), Dr. Jean-Damascene Bizimana told Sunday Times that the law relating to the punishment of the crime of genocide ideology prohibits any act that eulogises the genocide, or any act intended to gloat over genocide survivors.

If only the RCC was set up in such a way that it had a single leader who could put a stop to this.

[rug]

1. You mean like this?

In April 1996, when Rwanda was commemorating the Genocide against the Tutsi for the second time, Dr. Bizimana said, Pope Paul II wrote a letter to the Catholic Episcopal Conference of Rwanda requesting the Catholic Church to let the priests who participated in the genocide against the Tutsi to be held accountable and pursued by justice.

You're scraping, trotsky.

[Lordquinton]

2. Celebrating war criminals?

I'd like to say that's a new low.

[trotsky]

3. Naw, the RCC just keeps finding ways to sink lower. n/t

[Lordquinton]

4. But they did something good once too

So it's all just looking for something to complain about.

[trotsky]

5. That is true.

We all know it's only nasty anti-Catholic bigots who dare mention any of the bad stuff the church does, right?

[skepticscott]

6. And so do

the Catholic apologists on DU.