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The Nyarubuye massacre is the name which is given to the killing of an estimated 20,000 civilians on April 15, 1994 at the Nyarubuye Roman Catholic Church [1] in Kibungo Province, 140 km (87 mi) east of the Rwandan capital Kigali. The victims were Tutsis.
At the time of the genocide, Seromba was the priest in charge of a Catholic parish at Nyange in the Kibuye province of western Rwanda. He was convicted of committing genocide due to his providing of key and necessary approval for the bulldozing of his church, where 1,500–2,000 Tutsi were taking refuge, with the intent to not only kill large numbers of people, but specifically to destroy the ...
Constructed when Rwanda was still part of the German colonial empire in 1913, the building is one of the largest churches in the city. Sainte Famille, a site of genocide. During the Rwandan genocide of 1994 thousands of Tutsi and Hutu took refuge in the church and many were massacred, following the death of President Juvénal Habyarimana. [1]
The following is a partial chronology of significant events surrounding the 1994 Rwandan genocide. [1]1994 April 6 Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana is assassinated when a rocket propelled grenade strikes the plane carrying him and Burundi president Cyprien Ntaryamira, following negotiations related to the Arusha Accords.
[298] [299] Some in the Catholic Church's religious hierarchy were later tried and convicted for their participation in the genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. [295] Bishop Misago was accused of corruption and complicity in the genocide, but he was cleared of all charges in 2000. [300]
Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda is a history book by Timothy Longman. It was published in 2009 by Cambridge University Press . The book is about the involvement of the Christian leaders and the Catholic church in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide , and the role Christianity played in the genocide
This memorial centre is one of six major centres in Rwanda that commemorate the Rwandan genocide. The others are the Murambi Memorial Centre, the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre and others at Nyamata, Bisesero, and Nyarubuye. [3] During the genocide, people were killed at this church by the police, soldiers, interahamwe and local volunteers ...
The Rwandan government reported in 2012 that 43% of the Rwanda's population is Catholic. [1] In 2020, there were 939 priest and 2219 nuns serving across 205 parishes. [2] On 2022 worldpopulationreview.com reported that 56.9% of Rwanda population are Catholic.