MP condemns survivors’ killings

NYARUGENGE - Member of Parliament Abbas Mukama has condemned the killings of Genocide survivors around country and warned the people who are involved in the act that the long hand of the law will soon catch up with them. Mukama sounded the warning last week while attending a vigil night in Itaba village in Nyamirambo sector of Nyarugenge District which was organized in memory of victims who died in that area in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. “Those people who are continuing to kill survivors should be extra careful, they killed in 1994 thinking that they could exterminate all the Tutsi, and they were stopped by RPF. They should know that those who stopped them will still catch up with them,” Mukama warned. Mukama also scoffed at western countries for giving liberty to the perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide to walk freely saying that they must be extradited to Rwanda because it is where they committed the crimes. “Rwandans would be happy to see the culprits who killed their people brought here to stand trial than being left to move freely in those western countries. That is seen by Rwandans as negationism of the Genocide which claimed over a million people.” Addressing the people at the vigil, the Executive Secretary of Nyamirambo sector, Emmanuel Rutubuka reminded them that what caused the 1994 Genocide was the bad history intentionally coined by the colonialists. According to the coordinator of Itaba village Hassan Gasana, the village was used as a killing ground of people who had come from other parts of Nyamirambo. “We are here tonight to remember our loved ones who lost their lives in this same place in the 1994 Genocide and resolve that such acts should never be repeated again,” said Gasana. Ends

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MP condemns survivors’ killings