Remembering Rwanda: Honoring the Victims, Renewing the Commitment to Stand Against Hat

Today, we marked the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

In just one hundred days, more than one million women, men, and children were brutally killed—one of the darkest chapters in human history.

This tragedy stands as a stark reminder of what happens when early warning signs are ignored—when hate speech, discrimination, and dehumanization are allowed to take root and become normalized.

Today, in the United Nations General Assembly Hall, the voices of survivors spoke with courage and clarity. Their message is not only a remembrance of the past, but a call to action for the future:

“We choose life. We choose hope.”

Remembrance is not only about the past—it is a responsibility for the future