Sat 28 May 2022:
The remains of 9,181 genocide victims in Kigali City were on May 26, 2022, accorded a decent burial at Nyanza memorial site, in Kicukiro district.
The remains were recently retrieved from mass graves in different parts of Kigali following information volunteered on their whereabouts by some perpetrators.
“It is quite unfortunate to see that decades after the genocide, we are still retrieving the remains of genocide victims and giving them decent burial,” Paulin Rugero, an official of Ibuka, the umbrella association of Rwanda genocide survivors.
Jean-Damascene Bizimana, Rwanda’s National Unity and Civic Engagements Minister castigated genocide perpetrators for withholding information about mass graves.
Florence Mukantaganda, a survivor whose family, including her husband, were killed in the genocide appealed to people with any information leading to mass graves to come forward and inform local leaders within their respective communities in order for all genocide victims’ remains to get befitting burial.
Another genocide survivor Claire Ingabire, whose deceased relatives-parents, siblings, her mother’s cousins- were buried on Thursday May 26 , commended the efforts that have been put in searching and discovering genocide remains for decent burial.
“My heart is healing after decently burying my relatives whom I have found after 28 years, ever since the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi happened in Rwanda. I was only four years old when it was executed. I have been experiencing a sorrowful life over the past 28 years, due to lack of information about where my relatives had been dumped after being killed,” she said.
The burial ceremony on Thursday was attended by several residents, government officials and families of the victims as part of the 100 days of commemoration which started on April 7.
This year marks the 28th anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, in which more than one million people, mainly ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus, were killed.
SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
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