Editor,

I was shocked when The New Times published a story of Banyarwanda living in Uganda being helplessly hacked to death.

My first concern after reading this story was whether the East African Community citizens would ever live peacefully like brothers and sisters.

Banyarwanda have been living in Uganda for quite a long period of time-long before the idea of a united East Africa was ever mooted. They have intermarried and exchanged property with their Ugandan counterparts.

Why then should the very people they have lived with kill them? What has the Government of Uganda done to punish these cold murders?

What is most surprising is that even the major Uganda media houses are not exposing these incidences.

I am not judging them but I sensed something wrong when newspapers like The Daily Monitor and New Vision did not or would not published this story.

My greatest disappointment remains that East African Community dream will not be fully realized if the member states’ citizens are killed in while the domestic authority closes their eyes.

Such behavior will not take us any where.

Eric Murenzi
Nyagatare