Genocide victims’ remains to be buried in Uganda today

Today will mark the end of reburying Genocide remains in Uganda as victims are expected to be laid to their final resting place in Golo, Mpigi District. This is one of the three designated memorial sites where in total, over 10,000 victims who were killed and thrown into different tributaries of Lake Victoria, will be buried. This was confirmed by Rwanda’s High Commissioner to Uganda, Frank Mugambage in an interview yesterday. “Tomorrow will be the last day of burying the Genocide remains and it will mark the end of the whole exercise here in Uganda,” Mugambage said. Other sites are in Masaka and Rakai districts.While Rakai District has the Kasensero Memorial Site, Masaka has the Lambu Memorial Site. The event, Mugambage added, will be attended by senior officials from the Governments of Uganda and Rwanda as well as survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis. “Genocide survivors and members of the public will actually spend the night there to keep vigil,” the envoy added. The government has injected over US$100,000 in constructing the three official Genocide memorial sites in Uganda. Rwandan officials expected at the event today include the Executive Secretary of the National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG), Jean de Dieu Mucyo, Robert Masozera, the Director General of the Diaspora Directorate at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and IBUKA President, Theodore Simburudari. Ends