Colette Braeckman , a Belgian journalist and author of several books about Central Africa, was also present at the anniversary ceremony in Kigali of which she writes: 
Colette Braeckman , ambaye ni mwandishi wa habari wa Ubelgiji na mwandishi wa vitabu kadhaa kuhusu Afrika ya Kati, naye pia alikuwepo kwenye maadhimisho hayo kule Kigali, naye anaandika: