Province pays tribute to Genocide victims

Rwamagana–The Eastern Province paid tribute to the former staff members at Kibungo Prefecture who perished during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi over the week-end.

Monday, June 18, 2012

Rwamagana–The Eastern Province paid tribute to the former staff members at Kibungo Prefecture who perished during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi over the week-end.A delegation of the provincial staff, district mayors and lawmakers laid flowers on a mass grave where over 785 victims were buried.Addressing hundreds of mourners, MP Charles Kamanda believed to be the only survivor among the former Kibungo prefecture Tutsi staff, said that the victims were dehumanised before being slaughtered."We were tortured by colleagues, constantly harassed before full scale massacres begun.” Odette Uwamariya, the Governor of the province, told mourners that commemorating fallen workers would continue.She called on residents to help identify names of all the Tutsi who were killed during the Genocide, adding that widows and orphans would receive Provincial support.