In 1997, former forces for Rwanda (EX-FAR) attacked Nyange School and asked the students to separate themselves ethnically (Hutu and Tutsi). However, the students resisted the attack and the attackers elevated spots on them, killing many but 40 survived.
Until today, there are no preserved documents or video telling the history of heroism that characterized the students.
While remembering the heroism of the Nyange Students yesterday, the CHENO Chancellor, Dr. Pierre Damien Habumuremyi said that they are going to prepare a center which will tell the history of the school.
“This place should be used, the cabinet meeting has approved that we will put there a sign of heroism, in the near future it will have been done; in our negotiations with the Ministry of Education, we shall take one room and use it to preserve that history,” he said.
He said that it will help to teach youth and called officials to use the center in instructing the children about the history.
Theodette Abayisenga, a survivor of the attack said that she could not forget the horror they faced.
All 40 students who survived the attack have been categorized in IMENA category of Rwandan heroes.
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