The Flame of Hope arrives in Mutete

Kamizikunze Anastase one of the people who survived the Genocide against the Tutsi in Mutete sector, Gicumbi District in his testimonies have related everything he saw during the hiding at  Zoko hill. He provided his testimony  during an event of receiving the Flame of Hope at Mutete Genocide Memorial Site .

The Flame of Hope is calculating in 30 districts, and received in  chosen sites in which intense killings have happened. The circulating of the Flame of Hope is carried out as to prepare the 20th commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.

A crowd of Gicumbi residents has gathered in a local playground to hear from the survivors and remember the innocent Tutsis killed in the Gicumbi district and in its neighborhoods.

Over 1,039 innocent Tutsis are resting in the Mutete memorial site but this number is small as many of the bodies of the deceased innocent Tutsi  are not yet found to be buried.

Minister Agnes Binagwaho, the Minister of Health who was the guest of honor urged the Gicumbi residents  to build  strong unity among themselves and develop their motherland Rwanda.

The Governor of the Northern Province Bosenibamwe Aimee told the residents of Gicumbi that time has come for Rwandans to make a step forward in building a prosperous nation.

We have a government that is willing to secure and  develop its citizens. The time of hatred and darkness has gone. This is a time of prosperity and peace. Let us stand up and build our nation in a sustained way, Bosenibamwe said.

UM– USEKE.RW