Kigali: On Thursday 25th April 2019, authorities and students of IPRC-Karongi gathered in an event to mark the 25th commemoration of the genocide against the Tutsi in 1994, in particular memory of 13 students and teachers of the former Ecole technique Officielle (RTO) Kibuye, which later became IPRC Karongi who were killed in the genocide.
The event begun by laying wreaths onto the mass graves at Nyamishaba genocide memorial and thereafter other programmes carried on at the headquarters of IPRC Karongi.
During the ceremony, a monument onto which the names of these victims are written was unveiled. They also support two vulnerable genocide survivors in Bwishyura Sector who received each of them a pregnant cow.
The principal of IPRC Karongi, Dr NSABIMANA Ernest said that those remembered include two former staffers and 11 students. He said that the search continues to identify other former employees or students of the former ETO Kibuye, victims of the genocide against the Tutsi.
He said that in a bid to continue remembering the victims, IPRC Karongi erected a monument onto which the names of the victims are written, ad unveiled today as a symbol to pay respect to them.
He said that in order to back and console genocide survivors, IPRC Karongi has been carrying out several activities to support them, especially in Bwishyura Sector.
HABYARIMANA Pierre Celestin who survived to the genocide in Kibuye, in his testimonies, said that the students from Byumba who were in the school of Nyamishaba during the genocide played a significant role in perpetration of the genocide in Kibuye.
He said that several Tutsi families neighbouring with this school sought refuge there, but the people they found there, including those students, killed them and threw the bodies into Lake Kivu.
François Ndayisaba, Karongi District mayor who was also the guest of honour said that the former Kibuye area experienced the genocide on a large scale because it was a throttlehold of several notorious genocide masterminds and perpetrators.
He cited the example of the former prefect, Dr Clément Kayishema, a medical doctor who took the lead in killing the people and inciting others to do so. (End)