Bizimana was speaking Sunday in Kigali during a burial ceremony of remains of 359 victims which were recently exhumed in Ndera Sector of Gasabo District.
Speaking on behalf of survivor families whose relatives were buried on Sunday, Antoine Ruvebana said that it was difficult to know whereabouts of the remains because people who had enough information used to mislead them.
“This process shows us that some convicts who were released from bail and sought pardon for their role in the genocide were not changed. They were not repent because, they didn’t want to facilitate us by revealing whereabouts of our fallen families,” he said.
Reacting on Ruvebana’s concerns, CNLG’s Bizimana said that survivors would no longer beg convicts to reveal whereabouts of the remains after 24 years. He requested the use of technology in searching them as the system is applied to the Jewish Genocide.
“Continuing to beseech killers result in nothing, rather it encourages them to continue to gloat over survivors. Different institutions will continue to discuss it, and one of possible solution is use of technology. To use machines which can reveal where the remains of victims are located,” he said.
City of Kigali Mayor, Marie Chantal Rwakazina said that having people who still drug feet in revealing whereabouts of remains of genocide victims shows that there is a long way to go to end deniers and trivializers of the genocide.
“This opportunity should be there to remind us that we need to put in place new measures to fight against the genocide ideology, denial and trivialization of all forms, having people reluctant to reveal whereabouts of the remains inform us that there is a long journey in fighting denial,” she said.
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