{"id":7238,"date":"2013-04-18T03:57:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T03:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/police-pays-tribute-to-genocide-victims\/"},"modified":"2013-04-18T03:59:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T03:59:26","slug":"police-pays-tribute-to-genocide-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/police-pays-tribute-to-genocide-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Pays Tribute to Genocide Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{Police on wednesday visited genocide memorial sites in different parts of the country to pay tribute to over one million Rwandans, who perished during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi as the country continues to remember the one hundred days of massacre. }} <\/p>\n

Police was joined by officers from Rwanda Defence Forces, the community and local leaders at different sites to commemorate the 19th anniversary of the genocide.<\/p>\n

The exercise also included \u201cWalk to Remember\u201d and testimonies of survivors, who embarked on the role played by previous security organs in organizing and executing the genocide.<\/p>\n

At Kamonyi Genocide Memorial Site in Kamonyi District, the Inspector General of Police, Emmanuel K. Gasana, who was flanked by the DIGP, Stanley Nsabimana and other senior police officers, laid a wreath in honor of over 35, 000 bodies buried there.<\/p>\n

Most of the bodies buried at Kamonyi memorial site were killed in the sectors of Taba and Runda in operations headed by Jean Paul Akayezu and Sixbert Ndayambaje the then Bourgmestre of the two respective areas.<\/p>\n

The IGP echoed this year\u2019s commemoration theme of \u201cself reliance\u201d adding that \u201cRwandans must keep remembering\u201d to keep memories of the past bad history and to ensure that this inhuman act \u201cnever happens again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happened is a long and sad road full of agony that is hard to explain,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He challenged security organs in the genocidal regime for serving and abetting the genocide and promised that the government and Rwanda National Police in particular will ensure that it never happen again, and to further create a favourable environment that facilitates investment and development.<\/p>\n

He thanked those that stopped genocide and Community Policing Committees (CPCs) and local authorities for their input in fighting and preventing crimes and genocide ideology in particulars.<\/p>\n

The IGP also handed over a cheque worth Rwf1 million to Ibuka \u2013 an umbrella of genocide survivors – as part of Rwanda National Police\u2019s support to the ongoing renovation of memorial sites.<\/p>\n

Letitia Iryanyabera, one of the survivors in Kamonyi recalled the night of April 19, 1994, when militias and soldiers attached their village killing Tutsis and her husband and children, including her one-year old baby, whose head, she said, was smashed by a bullet.<\/p>\n

Iryanyabera is among those saved by Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA) at Kabgayi parish, where most families perished.<\/p>\n

The District Mayor, Jacques Rutsinga thanked Rwanda National Police for living up to its mandate to protect Rwandans. He said that the district is in the second phase of construction of memorial sites.<\/p>\n

In the Southern Region, police visited Nyanza Memorial site where 12, 000 bodies were buried while in the Eastern, they visited Kiziguro memorial site on Gatsibo District where 14, 000 genocide victims were laid to rest.<\/p>\n

In the Northern Region, they visited Muhoza memorial site in Musanze District, in Kigali, they visited Nyanza memorial site in Kicukiro District where about 2000 people killed at ETO Kicukiro were laid to rest while in the Western they visited Gisenyi memorial site in Rubavu District where 0ver 1200 bodies were buried.<\/p>\n

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{Kamonyi Mayor, Jacques Rutsinga and the IGP inside the memorial site (Photo: RNP)}<\/p>\n

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