Rwanda: Govt - Catholic Apology for Role in Genocide Inadequate

24 NOVEMBER 2016
By Jean d'Amour Mbonyinshuti

The government has questioned the recent apology by Catholic Church leaders on the role of some its members played during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, saying it is inadequate.

In a statement, released yesterday, the Government said that, while the clerics apologise on behalf of a few unnamed individuals, the bishops "appear to take the extraordinary step of exonerating the Catholic Church as a whole for any culpability in connection with the Genocide."

"This step is welcome, as individual expressions of remorse. However, its profound inadequacy only serves to highlight how far the Catholic Church still remains from a full and honest reckoning with its moral and legal responsibilities," reads the statement in part.

"Everything in the historical record contradicts this divisive claim," it adds.

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