Meeting with the Vice-Rector of the National University of Rwanda Dr. Jeanbosco Butera
The Vice Rector explained that the genocide was organised by the government; the politics of the day supported the genocide. He believes that if the Catholic Church had spoken out against the violence, then genocide would not have reached such a magnitude.

Some of the thinkers behind the genocide were members of the university. Hatred existed even within the walls of the University; students killed students and staff killed staff. Rwanda was let down by the international community and also by the moral leaders within the country.

To achieve ‘Never Again’ is to help people to understand and to give more democratic powers to the people, to work for good governance and the establishment of mechanisms and rules. One of the hardest challenges is finding how to live together again. In the University now everyone enters equally – who you are or where you come from is not relevant.

The Vice Rector hopes that the students are given strength to reject leaders who try to lead them and terrible things and to feel the obligation to respect each other. The Vice-Rector said that Never Again and the National University of Rwanda could work together by building partnerships between students and teachers. Taking it to a further level would involve administrations in international universities building links as well as collaborative research projects between international universities and the National University of Rwanda.