Remains of 141 victims of 1994 Rwandan genocide against Tutsi have so far been exhumed from mass graves at Rubavu airstrip in the western part of the country, a local official said.

The official said the bodies were exhumed since the search started on Monday.

The search started after casual labourers at the airstrip, who were digging water channels dug out human remains on Saturday, Pacifique Ishimwe, Rubavu District Vice Mayor said on Thursday.

“With the help of excavators, we have so far exhumed remains of about 141 people from mass graves but the search continues,” she said.

On the first day of the search, remains of 28 victims, including that of women were exhumed from two separate mass graves adjacent to Rubavu airstrip and district stadium.

She said the women were buried with babies strapped on their backs.

She appealed to the public to come forward with information which could help in identifying the names of the victims who were buried in the mass graves.

Genocide survivors said in late April 1994 during the genocide, several Rwandans of Tutsi ethnic group were led to the stadium called Umuganda, where they were killed.

Remains of genocide victims are still being discovered in different parts of Rwanda two decades after the wanton massacres.

Rwanda’s National Commission for the fight against Genocide (CNLG), said in 2009 that government was considering use of ground penetrating radar to locate mass graves for remains of the genocide victims in order to give them a befitting burial.

In 2018 and 2019, the remains of 118,049 genocide victims were discovered in 17 districts of the country, according to CNLG.

About one million people, mainly Tutsi and moderate Hutus, were killed in the 1994 genocide against Tutsi which lasted 100 days.

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Lalasticlala Seun Mynd44

Heart of man is desperately wicked.
Genocidal tendencies are inbuilt in so people.
May God never allow us to face this kind of terror, Amen.

Hmm

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Igbos,hope una dey see.

dalongjnr:
Heart of man is desperately wicked.
Genocidal tendencies are inbuilt in so people.
May God never allow us to face this kind of terror, Amen.

Weren't you guys wishing the same fate for Fulanis a while back and even clapped for a certain man of God who instructed same action
If you were among them,then you're no different,genocide is nothing when you feel threatened.

dalongjnr:
Heart of man is desperately wicked.
Genocidal tendencies are inbuilt in so people.
May God never allow us to face this kind of terror, Amen.

that is why you and i owe it a duty to flog any person showing strong traits of prejudice, nepotism, tribalism and genocide on the mouth and the back with a iron rod till they change their ways.

BeLookingIDIOT:

Weren't you guys wishing the same date for Fulanis a while back and even clapped for a certain man of God who instructed same action

Really! I mean like seriously?
Tell me more,pls. I giveth and taketh no life. Shalom.

BeLookingIDIOT:
Igbos,hope una dey see.

what has ur comment got to do with the news.

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