{{The staff of Ruhengeri hospital have paid tribute to over thirty victims of the Genocide that were killed at the hospital.
The victims include former employees at the hospital, patients and their attendants that were massacred during the 1994 genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda that claimed a million lives.
The event to honour the victims was held on May 23 which included a Walk to remember from Ruhengeri hospital to Muhoza Genocide memorial site where over 400 Victims are laid to rest.
Musonera Jean Damascene a former staff at Ruhengeri hospital gave a testimony in which he explained that Doctors who were professionally obliged to protect life actually served patients to militias.
The North Province Governor Bosenibamwe Aimé blamed the genocide on the previous bad Leadership that planned and executed the killings of citizens they were supposed to protect; “such atrocities and bad leadership should never happen again in Rwanda”.
Governor Bosenibamwe hailed the strength of survivors and their efforts in forgiving and living side by side with perpetrators.
He added that the government will continue supporting the survivors and helping to improve their livelihoods to rebuild the nation free of ethnic divisionism.
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