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2020-04-05T21:30:40.498Z


Rwanda: A shocking remnant of the genocide in the African state was discovered on the site where a dam was built • 800,000 people were murdered in 1994 around the world


A shocking remnant of the genocide in the African state was discovered on the site where a dam was built • 800,000 people were murdered in the wholesale massacre that took place in the 1990s

  • Burial of Rwandan Genocide Victims // Photo: Reuters

A mass grave containing the remains of no less than 30,000 people was discovered in Rwanda, outside the capital of Kigli, a harrowing reminder of the 1994 genocide in the country.

The site was discovered thanks to confessions from prisoners who participated in the genocide and took part in the burial of the murdered people, at the site where a large dam was built at that time to tell drinking water for Kigli capital.

"The problem is that a large part of the mass grave is now underwater. We are trying to dry the reservoir with the aim of removing all the bodies from the site," Naftel Ashihakia, director of the Ibuku survivor organization, told the Associated Press. "Another challenge is the corona eruption and restrictions. On work, but we make every possible effort for the victims to come to a respectable burial, ”Ashikha added.



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This is an unusual number of dead people buried at one point, even in relation to the bleak history of the Rwandan genocide. Mass graves are discovered on a monthly basis in the state, but Rohé is a group of dozens of murderers or hundreds of exceptional cases, due to the fact that most of the victims were murdered and buried in the areas of the community to which they belonged.

The timing of the discovery is also no coincidence, with Rwanda marking 26 years of massacres, in the shadow of the country's corona spread, which has seen over a hundred cases of disease contagion, this year only the main events will be held and will be broadcast on television and radio.

Planned and effective genocide

Exactly twenty-six years ago, Kigley and the entire state looked like a picture of Dante's Inferno. Thousands of militants of the notorious Intramavah militia closed the roads at makeshift checkpoints. Assisted by the army, police and local residents, they moved from one neighborhood to another and murdered men, women and children using hand grenades, rifles, and beating the Panga, the curved local machete.

Wall of the names of those killed in Rwanda // Photo: Aurora Latrolo

It was not a burst of unreasonable and thoughtless violence, but the beginning of a "final solution" that senior government officials had devised beforehand. He was preceded by widespread propaganda against the Tutsi minority, a population group that made up 17% of the country's population at the time. The trigger for the action was the assassination of President of the State, Joannal Bairimena, who insisted on negotiating with the Tutsi rebels in the north of the country. No one knows for sure who shot the missile that dropped the president's plane, which returned from peace talks in Tanzania, but the genocide planners immediately took action.

The killers moved fast. The first to be eliminated were opposition leaders, most of them the majority, the Hutu. The prime minister was murdered at the door of her house along with UN troops guarding her. Few opposition men escaped. When the skilled killers finished their work, it was the militia and the escorted masses to start the wholesale killing.

Mass grave in Kigli capital // Photo: Aurora Latrolo

The killers went through a house with lists, eliminating family after family. Those who managed to escape from his home encountered a militia checkpoint very quickly, where he was required to present a document that immediately revealed his identity. The bodies began to pile up. Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands. In Quigley alone, a quarter of a million people were murdered. The bodies were taken to a hill on the outskirts of the city, where pits were turned into mass graves.

Source: israelhayom

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