About 80,000 Rwandan genocide deaths will be buried 25 years later "Diario La Capitale de Mar del Plata

KIGALI, Rwanda.- A total of 80,931 bodies found in burials discovered during the 1994 Rwandan genocide will be honorably buried on May 4 at the Genocide Monument in Nyanza, southeast of Kigali, revealed on Sunday. badociation of Ibuka survivors.

"We discovered the mbad graves in the districts of Rusororo and Masaka, in the outskirts of Kigali, in April (2018)," EFE told the coordinator of this entity in the district of Gasabo, Theogene Kabagambire.

During the past year, 30,923 bodies were only exhumed in the Kabuga municipality, a part of Rusororo district, "said Kabagambire, unable to specify the total number of mbad graves discovered in this region to a depth of 25 meters, as they are added" by the hundreds ".

In the neighborhood of Masaka, in the Kicukiro district which houses the Nyanza Genocide Monument, 50 158 other bodies were exhumed, according to the head of the excavations, Innocent Gasinzigwa, out of a total of "128 mbad graves".

To find these bodies, Ibuka relied on the anonymous testimony of a young member of the Hutu extremist paramilitary group Interahamwe ("Those Who Fight Together"), who participated in the genocide at the age of 15 and was then spent a decade in prison..

According to Gasinzigwa, several bodies were also found in the house of the former governor of Kanombe, Jean Paul Nytayamira.

In this region, the regime of the then Rwandan president, Juvenal Habyarimana, instructed the Hutu youth to search the graves between 1990 and 1992, after the failure of the 1990 Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) attempt. ), a militia led by the current head of state, Paul Kagame – to take power.

"It is unfortunate that Rwandans in this region remained silent for 24 years and, nevertheless, they knew the existence of these graves," Kabagambire said.

On 6 April 1994, the demolition of the plane in which Habyarimana (Hutu ethnic group) was traveling with his Burundian counterpart, President Cyprien Ntaryamira, triggered this ethnic cleansing. considered one of the worst in history.

In just 100 days, some 800,000 people were killed – many with machetes –, the vast majority of whom were Tutsis, but also moderate Hutus.

Rwanda, chaired by President Paul Kagame, officially commemorates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the mbadacre by organizing numerous acts to pay tribute to the victims and prevent them from falling into oblivion.