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October 7 th was a GENOCIDE !

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 OCTOBER 7 th WAS A GENOCIDE !  “ ubumuntu “(kinyarwanda word ) - greatness of heart or to be HUMAN by showing humanity to others An OPEN letter to the world : on GENOCIDE !  Who better to know WHAT a REAL genocide is than the Rwandan people ? I am in Rwanda - a country I visited in 1982 - 42 years ago ! - a country who has not forgot what happened in April 1994- —. A time when in 100 days over 800 000 people were most brutally murdered ! - man - woman - child - baby !  “a crime without a name.” Said Winston Churchill  Then in 1944 it was defined :  Ralph Lemkin a polish jew and lawyer who list over 40 members of his own family in the holocaust in his book “ Axis Rule” did just that -  “Genos” - race- tribe-( Greek) and “ cide” ( Latin) meaning killing ! But it has of course been expanded - since then to include various genocide such as the Armenian 1922 genocide - the Cambodian ( pol pots ideology genocide ) the German Herero tribal genocide - the Bos...