{"id":2381,"date":"2015-02-11T22:13:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T21:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2016-07-18T15:49:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T15:49:07","slug":"busoni-the-list-of-peoplekilled-lies-at-the-heart-of-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/busoni-the-list-of-peoplekilled-lies-at-the-heart-of-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Busoni: the list of people\u201ckilled\u201d lies at the heart of tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"

A list published by the communal administrator, reporting nine people \u201ckilled \u201cduring the fighting at Cibitoke, is becoming highly controversial and contested. Some families speak of a charge of lies others confirm the deaths despite not having seen the corpses.<\/strong>-By Christian Bigirimana and Dieudonn\u00e9 Hakizimana,Translated by Diane Uwimana<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Eric<\/a>

Eric Ndayishimiye that would be killed according to the list of the Busoni administrator<\/p><\/div>\n

A displaced person from Rutabo, who prefers to remain anonymous, doesn\u2019t beat around the bush: \u201cNahwegere (a Twa accused of stigmatizing others from the site) and her husband Nduwabagabo, helped by the administrator, stigmatized us by accusing us of sending one of our family members into the fighting.\u201d
\nHe continues to report that there is a \u2018set up\u2019: \u201cReports were that some from the displaced site were killed in Cibitoke, this was designed in order to involve \u201cTutsi\u201d and \u201cTwa\u201d families to encourage them to recruit and send their children in the rebellion.\u201d
\nAt a press conference attended by Valentin Bagorikunda, the General Prosecutor of the Republic, he advised that the country was attacked by a force which composed of 190 combatants. \u201c\u2026from Kirundo (41), Makamba (35), Ngozi (23), Cibitoke (11) and Bubanza (10).\u201dBagorikunda advised that the deaths would be reported to the family members; however this promise has yet to be kept.<\/p>\n

Lists that divided<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Chantal<\/a>

Chantal Hakizimana: \u201cThose who recruited my husband must be appeared in the justice.\u201d \u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n

Two weeks later, in Vumbi Commune, Kirundo Province, a list of 17 persons was distributed by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Hakizimana, the communal administrator. The contents of this list are at best confusing and at worst untrue -three of those included in the report as dead, remain alive.
\nFr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Hakizimana stated that he met some of those listed as dead but actually alive: \u201cTwo told me that they were in Cibitoke looking for a work and another told me that he was visiting the DRC as a Mineral Prospector.\u201d
\nAll three of these young people confirmed that they were recruited by Gabriel Niyonzima. Niyonzima was a teacher at Mutoyi College, Bukuba, who has disappeared after impregnating one of his pupils: \u201cThe former teacher was a Transmission Agent of Alexis Sinduhije, the leader of the Solidarity and Democracy Movement party (MSD).\u201d
\nAt a later security meeting held by Evariste Nkunzimana, the administrator of Busoni Commune, he presented a list of nine persons. Among them, seven from Rutabo site were killed during the attack in Murwi Commune, Cibitoke Province. Of the people cited, these included four Twa and five Tutsi. He concluded the meeting with a threat: \u201cWho would like to provoke a war will begin and finish at his home.\u201d
\nFor some people from the site, it is a \u2018montage\u2019. One anonymous male is adamant that his brother is alive and well despite the reports which stated that he was dead: \u201cHe had given up studies at Rusarasi primary school. Three years ago, he went to Rwanda to look for a job.\u201dNo news was heard from him until May when a friend from Vumbi Commune told him that his brother is well and alive in Kigali.
\nA communal advisor fingered<\/strong><\/p>\n

For him, the list presented by the communal administrator is a kind of lies. The cause, he explains, the list was written by hands. \u201cIt has brought by Nahwegere, a Twa from Uprona party, Concilie Nibigira\u2019s wing. He believes that there is a needle rock because this lady is close to MP Jean Baptiste Nzigamasabo, nicknamed Gihahe. \u201cShe spent a much time in the meetings organized by Gihahe, who has visceral hatred for inhabitants from Rutabo site,\u201d he emphasizes.
\nHe wonders why the administration published the names without showing the corpses to their families in order to be buried with dignity. \u201cIf they have been captured alive, after identification, how were they pronounced dead? And if they were already dead before their identification, why did they not bring the corpses to the families?\u201d
\nFor him, this leads to concealment designed to divide people. This view is shared with an inhabitant from the site: \u201cEarly in the morning, hidden meetings were organized by Evariste Nkurunziza for only for the members of the ruling party. Why?\u201d The last meeting was held on Sunday 25 January.
\nWorse again, she astonished, even while the inhabitants of site work together in the evenings to ensure security, members of the ruling party cry conspiracy and refuse to take part in the night patrols.<\/p>\n

Fear in the site<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since the public meeting organized by the communal administrator, the Batwa families accuse Tutsis of manipulating their children, and sending them to their deaths, while pretending to send them to Rwanda.
\nConcerning the Tutsi families accused, some have left the displaced site and moved to places unknown. This is the case of Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Ruberintwari, the chief of the Site, Pacifique Urayeneza, his wife and their two kids and Ngabonziza, who escaped the site after the meeting organized by the administrator: \u201cThey were accused by Nahwegere and her husband of sending young people in the rebellion.\u201d
\nAnd wonder oneself, why there is silence while some of the people including the administration were obviously aware of the registration.
\nThose who remain at Rutabo currently live in fear: \u201cwe have learned that we will be called by the administration to explain how our brothers have left and notably where they are,\u201d he astonished.<\/p>\n

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They have been engaged in the rebellion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contrary to the apprehensions of these families, others affirm loudly that their beloved were killed during the fighting in Murwi.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Mathias<\/a>

Mathias Ndinzemenshi and Madeleine Inamabumba: \u201con the list published by the Busoni administrator figure out our two children that would be killed in Cibitoke.\u201d \u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n

This is the case of B\u00e9atrice Ngendahayo, a Tutsi. She is convinced that his son was involved with the rebellion and was confirmed dead by the administration. Her son, Ahmad Sibomana, 37 old, left in July 2014: \u201cAt the eve of his departure, he has called me and told me that he went to be military trained and didn\u2019t know if he will back in safety.\u201dHe traveled with other three persons.
\nFor B\u00e9atrice Ngendahayo, there is no doubt that her son was in the rebellion but she believes that he was misled.
\nThe same view is made by Florence Kwizerimana, 24, Jean Marie Nyabenda\u2019s wife, a Twa that was killed in Murwi according to the administrator.
\nShe explains that her husband went to Rwanda to apply for a job in February 2013: \u201cAfter two months, he sent me messages that he is well, and with both of two brothers but since that time, I haven\u2019t heard anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

The same view made by another sorrowful family<\/strong><\/p>\n

The announcement of the bad news of the young people killed in Cibitoke Province was huge painful news for the family of Mathias Ndinzemenshi and Madeleine Inamabumba.
\nAccording to the list, the couple of the Rutabo site lost two sons. However, they haven\u2019t seen the corpse of their children, or been able to bury them with dignity.
\nThe family doesn\u2019t know whether the information is true, yet they are concerned because they believe that the administrator must have good and sure information. \u201cWe hope that a communal officer can\u2019t lie. To the contrary, he has a responsibility over what he declares,\u201d Mathias Ndinzemenshi insists.
\nAfter along stay, Mathias Ndinzemenshi takes the courage and speaks few words: \u201cMy two sons, Gervais Singirabansi (30 years) and Jean de Dieu Ntabagabo (26 years) departed in February 2014.\u201d
\nChantal Hakizimana, wife of Singirabansi, is inconsolable. She wants to see and bury corpse of her husband.
\nThe second son of Mathias Ndinzemenshi was at the Rusarasi primary school.
\nMathias Ndinzemenshi and Madeleine Inamabumba accuse Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Ruberintwari, the chief of the site and Ngabonziza of misleading their children by organizing their departure to the DRC. They affirm that their two sons left without informing the family. \u201cWe knew that when they called us via the mobile phone of those who enrolled them in that rebellion.\u201d
\nThey confirm they communicated with their children via the mobile phones: \u201cthey told us that they were combatants in DRC training to help us in the future,\u201d says Madeleine Inamabumba.
\nAfter the sad news revealed by the administrator of Busoni Commune, Mathias Ndinzemenshi indicates that he wishes to organize a revenge against Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Ruberintwari and Ngabonziza who recruited their children: \u201c There are our neighbors who intervened because my family went to kill them.\u201d
\nThe couple Ndinzemenshi and Inamabumba indicates that they have made allegations in justice against who recruited their children to form a troop: \u201cthe affair is now at the Busoni judiciary police officer.\u201d
\nReactions<\/p>\n

\u201cSome Tutsi are jealous of me\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\u201cSome<\/a>

\u201cSome Tutsi are jealous of me\u201d \u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n

Nahwegere Misago, member of the Busoni communal council refuses all allegations against her.
\nFor her, there is a minor group of Tutsi ethnic group who are jealous of her due to her position as she is from Twa ethnic. \u201cAs I am from Uprona party lead by Concilie Nibigira, these Tutsi have been unified to chase me away from the communal council without success. They don\u2019t like me as their representative.\u201d
\nSince that nomination, the accusations against her, came from everywhere in the area of Tutsi ethnic of Busoni: \u201cthey accuse me to have a low intellectual degree, collaborate with the members of the ruling party, take part in secret meetings held by the MP Gihahe from Busoni.\u201d
\nNevertheless, this doesn\u2019t discourage her: \u201cthey want to intimidate me in order to give up all steps undertaken against all who intervene in the recruitment of our children in the rebellion, but I will do my best until the justice is done.
\nShe indicates that she is at the service of all people as she was elected by all the population. \u201cI have even given up my pottery to care for the inhabitants\u2019 problems of my commune,\u201d she says.
\nShe currently asks Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Ruberintwari and Ngabonziza to emerge from hiding to reply to the accusations of those who lost their family members.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur objectives were to prevent\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\u201cOur<\/a>

\u201cOur objectives were to prevent\u201d \u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n

Evariste Nkunzimana, the communal Administrator of Busoni, speaks about a small group who threatened the population and encouraged them to escape the commune: \u201csome of them are now identified and will be followed.\u201d
\nHe added that the list has been addressed by the general prosecution of the Republic and according to the communal administration verification, these people do not exist. Evariste Nkunzimana mentions that the objective of the meeting was to prevent the youth of the commune to be enrolled in the rebellion.<\/p>\n

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