Ban Ki-moon pays tribute to fallen UN colleagues and comforts their families

Abstract

As part of the commemorations of the genocide against the Tutsi in 1994, the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon paid tribute to the fallen 64 UN staff and their families expressing his deepest condolences to relatives and friends they left behind. “Their names and memories will always be here – as they will in your hearts”, said the Secretary General in a solemn ceremony held at the UNDP compound in Kigali. The UN Secretary-General laid a wreath at a plaque erected to honor the memories of the UN staff members who were brutally killed in the genocide. He said that “We must not be left to utter the words ‘never again’, again and again”.