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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 church is now a memorial to the genocide. [4] A similar event occurred in a Catholic church in Nyange, Kibuye, which was bulldozed and attacked on 16 April 1994, killing more than 1,500 displaced Tutsis inside. The parish priest, Father Athanase Seromba, was convicted in 2006 of genocide for that crime at the ICTR. [5]
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 ...
Of Rwanda's 750 judges, 506 did not remain after the genocide—many were murdered and most of the survivors fled Rwanda. By 1997, Rwanda only had 50 lawyers in its judicial system. [ 331 ] These barriers caused the trials to proceed very slowly: with 130,000 suspects held in Rwandan prisons after the genocide, [ 331 ] 3,343 cases were handled ...
Rwanda marked the 30th anniversary on Sunday. * In 1990, rebels of the Tutsi-dominated Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) invaded northern Rwanda from neighbouring Uganda. The RPF's success prompted ...
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]
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 ...
Rwandan public opinion is as diverse and sophisticated as any, differing by generation, education, region, class, ideology, and country of origin (many of the individuals comprising post-genocide ...