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Genocide of the Tutsis, Rwanda 1994: “We were already seriously threatened since 1992”
Leiny Munyakazi, survivor of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda in 1994, recalls the memory of this period, when her entire family was murdered.
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Leiny Munyakazi, survivor of the genocide perpetrated against the Tutsis, gives her testimony on Thursday April 11 in the Franceinfo Talk while the 30th commemoration of the massacre was held in Rwanda on Sunday.
“In 1990, the RPF attack was very hard on the Tutsis: 5,000 of them were imprisoned, supposedly because they were accomplices of the rebels…” explains Leiny Munyakazi, survivor of the genocide perpetrated against the Tutsis, Thursday April 11 in the Franceinfo Talk while Rwanda isSunday April 7 commemorated the genocide of the Tutsis which took place in 1994 and during which a million people were murdered in around a hundred days.
Before 1994, imprisonments and assassinations
“Since thencontinues Leiny Munyakazi, the Tutsis had no respite. It was the prisons, it was the killings. We were really under threat since 1992. And very seriously in the capital, Kigali. People were killed, murdered, or imprisoned. It was already a very hard period before 1994, before the genocide. “
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