In a bid to dealing with the past, SOHEDEO-Amahoro Iwacu supports youth from families of genocide survivors and genocide perpetrators.
Working with youth in this context, has been a rational choice to ensure that genocide ideology is fought for, and transgenerational trauma and hate prevented among youth. While our targeted youth is the second generation, i.e., young girls and boys born from survivors of the genocide and genocide perpetrator’s own kids (meaning those who didn’t experience the genocide), attendees to the training have included some of youth who survived genocide or those that were alive when their parents were committing genocide (those that were 1-3 years old at the time the genocide was happening).
The objective of the training was to equip young people with knowledge, skills, and attitudes that support their positive contributions based on respect, equality, justice and solidarity. We hope that this training has empowered young people in identifying their and other’s human rights and have enhanced their abilities to claim and defend those rights.
During this training, young people were called to engaging in dialogues about how human rights laws and principles (Human dignity, equality, non-discrimination, indivisibility, inalienability, interdependency and universal brotherhood) can be translated into people’s social, cultural and political reality. They have as well been asked to think critically (The training on critical thinking is planned in few days to come) before executing any act in order to ascertain that they are not abusing other’s rights and avoiding falling into the same trap as youth who committed genocide.
The training happened at Nyabitekeri sector office on Friday, 6th October, and has brought together 30 youth.
In & for Peace.