Genocide Survivor Killed 20 Years Later

{{Twenty Years later after surviving the genocide, Nshimiyimana Erneste was murdered by unknown people in the same manner Interahamwe killed their victims.}}

Nshimiyimana was on April 5 attacked and his head and legs were cut using a machete and left dead at about 10PM. He was resident at Kanoga, Shagasha cell in Gihundwe Sector in Rusizi district.

Speaking to IGIHE, the Sector Executive Secretary Ingabire Nadine Michelle said Nshimiyimana was milking his cows when he was attacked and cut several times on his head and limbs.

The attackers left Nshimiyimana’s lifeless body with deep cuts laying in the kraal.

However, Police has detained the wife of the deceased to help in the investigations after it emerged that the couple had previously been involved in land wrangles.

Early in March, in Rusizi district a group of people attacked a community of genocide orphans where they kidnapped a young girl raped and beat her and later threw her in a nearby forest.

On 7th April, Rwandans officially started 20th commemoration of the genocide against ethnic Tutsi’s that claimed a million lives.

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