Police are investigating an incident where unknown people late this week dug up a grave containing the remains of two genocide victims; a mother and her child. 

Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) André Hakizimana, told The New Times yesterday that they are yet to identify those who attempted to exhume the bodies and their intentions.

"We have not yet known their intention. That is why we are carrying out investigations to establish who they are and what they wanted to achieve,” he said.

According to Elie Ndayisaba, the representative of Ibuka, the umbrella organisation of genocide survivors’ associations in Nyamagabe District, the two bodies were taken to the new Mbazi genocide memorial site where they will be given decent burial along with others in June this year.

"When we want to do what gives us peace or restore value to our people, others want to fight against that,” he said, noting that those behind the incident hurt many people.

"In fact, there are people who still harbor the Genocide ideology who are playing on the minds of genocide survivors or erase evidence”.

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