85 Genocide victims given decent burial

KIGALI - THE remains of 85 victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi were yesterday accorded a decent burial at Kigali Genocide memorial centre. The ceremony was organized by the management of Nyamirambo Sector in collaboration with Nyarugenge District. According to the Executive Secretary of Nyamirambo Sector, Emmanuel Rutubuka, the bodies were retrived on June 2 this year from several latrines in Kivugiza and Rugarama cells. Rutubuka said that some inmates at Kigali central prison charged with Genocide related crimes revealed the whereabouts of the victims’ bodies. The Mayor of Nyarugenge District, Theophila Nyirahonora, called upon district officials and the local residents to always remember the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and to fight against the Genocide ideology and its related crimes. “Today it’s very important to have given a decent burial to over 80 remains of our fellow Rwandans who were killed during the 1994 Genocide in Nyamirambo Sector,” Nyirahonora said. “This should be always taken as a great loss and lesson to our nation.”. She also said that more remains of victims were still missing and encouraged residents to voluntarily reveal their. The Mayor also castigated former President Juvenal Habyarimana’s regime for promoting racism, divisionism and hatred among Rwandans leading to the Genocide. Rutubuka told The Sunday Times that those buried were killed by Interahamwe and Ex-FAR militias at various roadblocks in Nyamirambo Sector. He also revealed that among the remains that were buried included the family of Alloys Mutabaruka, a former employee of the US Embassy who was killed together with his wife and three children. Ends