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August 2, 2023
August 2, 2023
Gatsibo: Over 5,000 Genocide victims accorded decent burial
Card Number 28959
Number
28959
Author
Nsabimana, Jean de Dieu
Date
August 29, 2021
Ymd
20210829
Title
Gatsibo: Over 5,000 Genocide victims accorded decent burial
Subtitle
Genocide survivors and the leadership of Gatsibo District on Saturday, August 29 laid to rest 5,269 victims of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi, in the upgraded memorial site of Kiziguro.
Size
22913 bytes
Pages nb.
3
Source
URL origin
Type
Article de journal
Language
EN
Abstract
On April 11, 1994 the Tutsi who had taken refuge in the Kiziguro church in Gatsibo in the commune of Murambi were murdered. The bodies were thrown into a hole 24 meters deep. Fifteen of them were thrown alive. They survived until April 16 when the Inkotanyi, the RPF soldiers, threw a rope at them. Eleven survivors were brought up. One died immediately. Five are still alive in 2021. The massacres were organized by Jean-Baptiste Gatete, former burgomaster of Murambi, sentenced to 40 years in prison by the ICTR, and by Onesphore Rwabukombe, then burgomaster of the commune of Muvumba who was sentenced in perpetuity by a court in Germany. Ibuka's representative requested that the Catholic Church erect a monument to commemorate the massacre in that church.