{"id":10369,"date":"2018-10-07T18:49:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T18:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=10369"},"modified":"2018-10-08T07:26:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T07:26:28","slug":"amepci-and-ac-genocide-cirimoso-call-on-cvr-to-identify-all-mass-graves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/amepci-and-ac-genocide-cirimoso-call-on-cvr-to-identify-all-mass-graves\/","title":{"rendered":"Amepci and AC Genocide Cirimoso call on CVR to identify all mass graves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After the Truth and Reconciliation Commission \u2013CVR announced that it will soon proceed with a decent burial of human remains dug up from mass graves; associations engaged in fighting crimes against humanities call on CVR to identify all mass graves throughout the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9123\" style=\"width: 482px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9123\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9123\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Aloys-Batungwanayo-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Aloys Batungwanayo: \u201cThe past affects people in different ways\u201d\" width=\"472\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Aloys-Batungwanayo-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Aloys-Batungwanayo-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Aloys-Batungwanayo-600x345.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Aloys-Batungwanayo.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aloys Batungwanayo: \u201cNo further investigations were conducted to see if there are other human remains\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Aloys Batungwanayo, Chairman of the Association for the Memory and Protection of Humanity against International Crimes (Amepci Gira Ubuntu), says the idea to proceed with a decent burial is a good initiative but calls on CVR to pay much attention so that it won\u2019t make victims suffer twice. \u201cThe human remains that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is going to bury were randomly discovered. In the area where they were discovered, no further investigations have been conducted to see if there are other remains,\u201d he says adding that this may affect people who lost their relatives.<\/p>\n<p>Mr.Batungwanayo also wonders if the victims of the crimes have been associated in the work. \u201cThe question is to know whether victims have been associated. Has CVR listened to the victims\u2019 complaints and taken into considerations their suggestions? If not, this is a big mistake,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>As to the question of identification of mass graves which has been a major concern for people, Batungwanayo says Burundi is unable to identify them. He calls on the commission to sensitize the population. \u201cCVR should begin a sensitization campaign, calling the population to come together and proceed with a proper burial of all the human remains. Everyone deserves a decent burial regardless of their background\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00e9rence Mushano, chairman of AC G\u00e9nocide-Cirimoso, says there should be an inventory of all the mass graves throughout the country before proceeding with a decent burial. \u201cSome of the victims may not have this privilege to get their relatives buried in mass graves exhumed for a proper funeral. CVR should have started with the identification of all mass graves throughout the country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mushano says CVR is being influenced by politicians and calls on its members to take their responsibilities. \u201cIt seems like their work is being influenced by politicians. There should be more order and reorganization of their work to satisfy all the victims\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mushano says he is worried that there will be no truth because some victims are being neglected.<br \/>\nIn a press conference held on Thursday 4 October, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission announced that it will begin with the burial of human remains discovered in five provinces the same month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Truth and Reconciliation Commission \u2013CVR announced that it will soon proceed with a decent burial of human remains dug up from mass graves; associations engaged in fighting crimes against humanities call on CVR to identify all mass graves throughout the country. Aloys Batungwanayo, Chairman of the Association for the Memory and Protection of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":9123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[950,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10370,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10369\/revisions\/10370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}