According to Ndera Sector Executive Secretary, Francois Iyamuremye, whose identity was not readily revealed, who survived the genocide from inside the Ndera Neuropsychiatric Hospital (Craes) informed them that the hospital compound may contain mass graves.
The girl said that during the genocide, she heard people digging behind the house she was hiding in, and dumped dead bodies there.
Local officials acted on the information from the girl who currently lives in Canada, and exhumation activities started on Monday last week.
“From Monday to Saturday, we have been exhuming and today we have counted remains of 123 victims,” Iyamuremye said.
“We cannot affirm that these are the only victims that were dumped there, because the hospital had been using the pit for rain water harvesting. Possibly, some remains have totally decayed, especially of children. Exhumation activities continue, and there is another pit inside the hospital that we want to open,” he explained.
Iyamuremye said that exercise to search for more remains continues across the sector.
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