John Nsengiyera, 27, recalls, with a tinge of nostalgia, how life used to be back home in Ngungu, a region in Masisi territory, in DR Congo's North Kivu Province, where cattle grazed on rolling green hills.
Although the Congolese Tutsi community from this region has been subjected to discrimination since 1964, according to his parents, they always lived a decent livelihood.
"When they fled to our country, they arrived with their genocide ideology and targeted the Congolese Tutsi, and this is when the suffering of my community started in earnest," Nsengiyera said.had massacred more than one million people, in three months. In eastern Zaire, they enjoyed the full protection and support of the country's government and Western NGOs and governments including France.
Tutsi communities continue to be subjected to widespread hate speech, discrimination, hostility, and violence rooted in the genocide ideology revived by the genocidal militia, FDLR, and embraced by the Congolese leadership and security apparatus.The family returned to their country in 2009 when relative calm returned. However, this was short-lived because the discrimination worsened and they returned to Rwanda in 2012.
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