The move comes 25 years after remains of victims of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi were laid in existing sub-standard Muhoza memorial lacking all necessary requirements including coffins among others to accord decent burial to victims.
The majority of those victims are from different districts of Northern Province who were killed in former Ruhengeri court where they had sought refuge.
Musanze district had decided to relocate the remains of genocide victims from Muhoza to Busogo Genocide Memorial in 2018 but didn’t go into effect because the latter was proposed for upgrading too.
The mayor of Musanze district, Jean Damascène Habyarimana has said that Muhoza memorial will be built in a new place enabling the district to own a state of the art memorial
“We have no memorial preserved efficiently at the district level. We have held discussions with collaboration with CNLG and IBUKA which came up with a consensus on relocating the memorial in Kigombe cell of Muhoza sector,” he said.
“The funds to build the first phase of the memorial will be allocated within the next fiscal year. We will also seek how to renovate other memorials,” added Habyarimana.
Muhoza genocide memorial shelters over 700 victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
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