Harerimana was speaking Saturday while launching the remembrance week and 100 days of commemoration in the district.
“Let’s do our best to tell the truth because the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi is something that we could not stop speaking about in our life. But, this time should also be an opportunity to inculcate love, unity and fight against the genocide and its ideology,” he urged.
He requested residents to remember by continuing to contribute to national development, particularly to support and comfort genocide survivors.
Emmanuel Kageruka, a survivor in the district said that Tutsis in former Kayove commune were killed and thrown in Lake Kivu.
“Interahamwe Militia had formed barricades and Tutsi who were caught were killed and thrown in Lake Kivu,” he said.
Using examples, Kageruka said that the genocide was brutally executed in the district where children killed their parents.
“Genocide was cruelly executed in this region, for example a man called Gabriel Nzabandora threw his mother in Lake Kivu. Five more men threw their wives in Kivu,” he explained.
The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi took the lives of over one million.
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