The event took place yesterday and coincided with the remembrance day of over 15,000 Tutsi who were killed inside the Anglican Church that was constructed in there.
Buried remains were found last week in a pit where many bodies were dumped during the genocide.
According to Gasabo District officials, more 40 remains were found in Gatsata Sector and 12 in Bumbogo.
Gasabo District Vice-mayor in charge of economic development, Raymond Mberabahizi encouraged people to reveal where more bodies of genocide victims were dumped.
“The most terrible thing is that these bodies were found in a home of a person who has been living there before, during and after the genocide, but, he did not want to reveal the pit had bodies of victims until we were informed by a tenant,” he explained.
“And I wonder why people do not understand why they should reveal where bodies were dumped yet the government pardoned perpetrators. Revealing the places where victims were dumped is the only relieving gesture you can do for a genocide survivor,” he added.
Speaking at the event, the Minister of Cabinet Affairs, Marie Solange Kayisire comforted survivors and hailed people who revealed the whereabouts of bodies of genocide victims for them to be accorded decent burial.
She encouraged Rwandans to tutor children on uprightness values.
“Let’s not allow people who need to take us back in past; we call upon parents to tutor children to uphold values of uprightness so that they cannot be influenced by negative forces,” she said.
Ruhanga Genocide Memorial Centre has been an eternal resting place to 36,549 victims before adding the 157 who were buried there yesterday.
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