19-01-2010
[I have been following Madam Victoire’s speech. I did not find anything that suggests denying Rwandan Genocide. She is categorical: it is painful that so many Tutsis perished in the genocide. But she rightly says that it is painful that the Hutu who lost their relatives during the genocide are not allowed to say anything.
By the way, at the very place where Mucyo constructed a primary school, just on the Kigali-Butare road, there is a very big mass grave of the Hutu!!I am not sure those remains were ever removed from that place!!! Bwana Mucyo, who now leads the National Commission to Fight Genocide is one of the planners of the Hutu genocide!!!I know him for this.
I only pity the people of Rwanda!!They will never see peace until such a time as Rwandans will come together and readdress all the previous propaganda. Kagame’s men killed the Hutu in Millions. The interahamwe too killed the Tutsi en mass!!! The perpetrators on both sides must be brought to book. That’s it. Kagame may cover this up for his political gains but it is like covering up smoke and fire. It will break through!!!
Netters, remember that the South African Apartheid government survived on propaganda 9 pure lies) for some good number of years!!!But where are they now?
Kagame, wake up please. Let people talk about their absurd history without favor and/or intimidation. Mistakes were made. We can only undo these mistakes by an open dialogue.]
© Lusoke Willy
Phony Officials like the Executive Secretary of the Rwanda National Commission against Genocide (apparently he gets paid from the tragedy of our people) , Jean de Dieu Mucyo, proposing that the bodies of our loved ones be exhumed and offered a decent burial in Uganda but not transported back to Rwanda, is the most tragic and insulting statement ever made since the dark days of 1994. Such statements can only be made by a genocidal mindset!
Rebury genocide remains in Uganda – officials
Government officials have called for a quick intervention in offering a decent burial to remains of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi that are currently lying in mass graves in Uganda.
The officials were reacting to a recent parliamentary report that indicates that witchcraft practices were being carried out on some mass graves in the neighbouring country.
During the Genocide, victims were dumped in the Akagera and Nyabarongo rivers — both tributaries of Lake Victoria — and were washed down and landed at different shores of East Africa’s biggest lake.
The bodies were later buried at six different sites in Uganda. Speaking during a public talk-show broadcast on the National Television and Radio, the Minister of Culture and Sports, Joseph Habineza, strongly condemned the witchcraft practices on the mass graves.
“It is very unfortunate that bodies of our people are being abused, this calls for quick intervention in ensuring that they get a decent burial,” said Habineza whose ministry is in charge of Genocide memorials sites. He also dismissed claims by some Genocide revisionists that the bodies belonged to people who were trying to flee the war in Rwanda.
“These were people who were thrown in the water alive or bodies of those people who were killed and later thrown in the rivers on claims that they were being sent to their place of origin in Abyssinia (the current Ethiopia),” said Habineza. He also called on the Ugandan government to cooperate and offer a decent place where the bodies can be laid to rest.
According to Theodore Simburudari, the President of Ibuka, throwing the bodies into River Nyabarongo started way back in the 1960s. Ibuka is the umbrella body of genocide survivors associations.
Simburudari proposed that the bodies be exhumed and brought back to Rwanda. Some local authorities in Uganda have blocked the exhumation of the bodies for a decent burial claiming that it is taboo in their cultures, but according to Simburudare, Rwanda also does not allow exhumation in its culture.
“We also never had a culture of exhuming bodies… we only did it because of the situation. Ugandan authorities should support us in this,” he said.
He also called upon the National Commission against Genocide (CNLG) to ensure that everything possible is done to solve the issue.
However, the Executive Secretary of CNLG, Jean de Dieu Mucyo, proposed that the bodies be exhumed and offered a decent burial in Uganda but not transported back to Rwanda.
Meanwhile, Minister Habineza will on Tuesday afternoon respond to the summons by Members of Parliament to inform them about the progress in offering a decent burial to the remains.
BY EDWIN MUSONI
Source: Freeuganda
31 March 2009
The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a “time”, yet It cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine
