Dr tito rutaremara biography

“The genocide must live on,” insists Tito Rutaremara, the éminence gris of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, or RPF. A founding father of the RPF and the Rwandan government‘s current Ombudsman, Rutaremara once dubbed himself the “resident philosopher” of the Tutsi organization on account of having spent much of his life as a “Left Bank intellectual” in French exile.

Today, fifteen years after the 1994 genocide, the lanky, six-feet-tall Rutaremara, who is generally soft spoken and charming, vigorously defends the very graphic display of skulls and bones and hundreds of contorted skeletons at the partially completed Murambi Memorial Centre in southern Rwanda.

According to Rutaremara, the bodily remains—which nowhere else in the country are shown as graphically as in Murambi—are indispensable to the memorialization of the atrocities of 1994 because, as he puts it, the genocide must not be forgotten.

On this view, absent the prom