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All Things Considered: Jean Pierre Sibomana

Jean Pierre Sibomana

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Roy Jenkins speaks to Jean Pierre Sibomana, an advocate for disability rights in Rwanda.

Roy Jenkins speaks to Jean Pierre Sibomana, a survivor of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.  He is now a disability rights champion.

While attention is understandably focussed on the latest horrors of the Gaza-Israel conflict, it’s easy to forget that in Ukraine and dozens of other countries, people are also being forced from their homes, seeing communities destroyed, and living in daily fear.    In other places, the memories of much earlier atrocities continue to shape lives.

It’s the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda which killed 800,000 people in 100 days in 1994.

The UK parliament faces yet another round of votes on the government’s plans to send asylum seekers there, proposals hailed as a means of protecting borders, deterring people without legitimate claims, and fighting the traffickers.

And widely condemned as inflicting unnecessary suffering, breaching international agreements, and incurring huge expense. while working with a country with a far from perfect record on human rights. 

On the day two years ago when the plans were first announced, Roy Jenkins was interviewing a survivor of that genocide in 1994.   He was in Wales, visiting a couple who’d kept in touch with him since he was in an orphanage.  

Today we’re repeating that conversation with Jean-Pierre Sibomana, who was maimed in an explosion which killed his mother. He’s faced many struggles, but that devastating event was eventually to help set a vision for his life – he’s now a disability rights champion.

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