Rwandan authorities say the remains of at least 1,000 people have been found in a farming community in the district of Huye, a surprisingly high number after three decades of government efforts to give genocide victims dignified burials.
Patrick Hakizimana, a Hutu peasant who was jailed for his alleged role in the genocide as an army corporal, shows a photo during his time as a soldier in the outskirts of Kigali, Rwanda, Tuesday, April 4, 2024. The diggers’ hoes scrape the brown soil, looking for — and often finding — human bone fragments. The women then wipe the bone pieces with their hands as others watch in solemn silence.
Rwanda has made it a criminal offence to withhold information about a previously unknown mass grave. For years perpetrators of the 1994 genocide, including those who served prison terms and were later released, have been urged to speak up and say what they know. The government of President Paul Kagame, whose rebel group stopped the genocide and whose party has ruled the East African country since 1994, has tried to bridge ethnic divisions using legal means and other measures. Although critics accuse the authoritarian Kagame of crushing all dissent, he is also praised by many for presiding over relative peace and stability.
As more mass graves are discovered, Tutsi survivors “start to doubt” the good intentions of their Hutu neighbours, he said. Their pleas for information about relatives lost in the killings go unanswered. “She was a lovely girl,” Mujawayezu said of her sister as she watched the digging at a mass grave site on a recent afternoon in her Tutsi-dominated neighbourhood. “One day, hopefully, we will get to know where she was buried.”
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