{"id":37397,"date":"2018-04-30T13:49:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T13:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/at-15-kagabo-saved-twelve-tutsi-during-the\/"},"modified":"2018-05-03T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T11:54:00","slug":"at-15-kagabo-saved-twelve-tutsi-during-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/at-15-kagabo-saved-twelve-tutsi-during-the\/","title":{"rendered":"At 15, Kagabo saved twelve Tutsi during the genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kagabo says in sharp contrast to his father who committed genocide, Kagabo who was 15 years old in 1994, then working as a house-help,  saved lives. <\/p>\n<p>Kagabo\u2019s father, Yuri Baritima was a local government leader at the time of the genocide which he perpetuated, found guilty on trial and is serving life in prison.  <\/p>\n<p>At the time of the genocide, Kagabo was a caretaker at a house that belonged to a man who rarely came by, spending much of the time at his second home.<\/p>\n<p>In the compound was an excavation which Kagabo used to hide twelve people who were being hunted. <\/p>\n<p>The garbage pit had ample space for all the twelve which he covered on top, taking them meals from there on a daily basis.  <\/p>\n<p>Later on, Kagabo took eleven of them to another place and remained with one woman, Donathille Murekatete whom they fled together to the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kagabo, he did all the best to save innocent lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very young but had no room for hate as my father was. I had to protect those who were being hunted at the same time being vigilant so that my father who was a leader in local government would not guess that I was protecting people or guess that I did not agree with his mission,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n<p>Murekatete, one of survivors who were saved by Kagabo thanks him for the outstanding activity.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cKagabo saved me and my family, he protected us and we were in a place where killers used to cross, but could not guess that we were in,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Speciose Mukarurangwa, who survived in the region and the president of IBUKA in Gisenyi Sector requested to list Kagabo among pact protectors. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cBased on his activities, I think that he would be listed on the list of pact protectors. It was not such easy because he was a child who would have obeyed his father, but did the contrary and saved people,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Kagabo is now married to a survivor woman. They live in Gisenyi. <\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, all twelve people who were saved by Kagabo visited and promised him a gift as a pact between them.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25026 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/7-kagabo-a659d.jpg\" alt=\"At 15, Kagabo saved twelve Tutsi during the genocide  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25025 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/3-icyobo_yabahishemo_1_-60e95.jpg\" alt=\"The excavation which Kagabo used to hide twelve people is still there.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25024 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/5-murekatete_donathille_3_-8302e.jpg\" alt=\"Murekatete thanks Kagabo for saving her life during the genocide\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saadi Kagabo from Kavumu Cell, Gisenyi Sector of Rubavu District saved twelve Tutsi who were being hunted down for massacre during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37397"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37397"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}