KIGALI, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- African Union Special Envoy on the Prevention of Genocide and Other Mass Atrocities Adama Dieng on Monday called for urgent actions to combat racism, negative ethnicity, xenophobia, and all forms of intolerance in the region.
Speaking at the International Conference on Genocide Prevention in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, Dieng said that the Rwandan genocide against Tutsi in 1994, in which about a million people were killed, did not start with machetes but dehumanization of the Tutsi ethnic group. He noted that the conflict in South Sudan started as a political crisis, where hate speech across ethnic lines was encouraged and instigated.
