STATEMENT ON THE BURUNDI GOVERNMENT BAN ON THE 27th COMMEMORATION OF THE GENOCIDAL MURDER OF 150 TUTSI STUDENTS AT LYCEE KIBIMBA ON OCTOBER 21, 1993

ASSOCIATION BURUNDAISE DE LUTTE CONTRE LE GÉNOCIDE
AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA  

 

AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA was shocked to learn that the Government of Burundi has imposed a ban on the activities that AC GENOCIDE CIRIMOSO had scheduled for this October 21^st , 2020 at Kwibubu in the Province of Gitega to mark the 27th commemoration of the murder of 150 Tutsi students who were burnt alive at Lycee Kibimba on October 21st,1993 by followers of the then ruling FRODEBU party.

 

AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA is deeply saddened by this moral torture exerted on the victims and the survivors of the 1993 Tutsi genocide, whose rights to commemorate the murder of their loved ones have been blatantly and arbitrarily violated by the government.

 

AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA considers this ban to be part of the incumbent government’s sustained efforts to erase the memory of the genocide that today’s ruling CNDD-FDD party perpetrated against the Tutsi.

 

AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA is highly preoccupied by the clear-cut connection between the ongoing persecution and discrimination of the victims and survivors of the 1993 Tutsi genocide on one hand, and the sustained falsification of the history of Burundi by the current TRC with regard to the genocide perpetrated against the Tutsi on the other hand.

 

AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA notes particularly that the commemoration ban intervenes parallel to a campaign of exhumations of the remains of the victims of killings by the CNDD-FDD and its ideological and biological ancestors. These exhumations are always followed by false statements made by the current TRC with intention to reduce to the minimum any reference to Tutsi victims.

 

FOR ALL THOSE REASONS:

 

AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA invites the victims and survivors of the 1993 Tutsi genocide not to be discouraged by this move by a regime whose human records has continuously deteriorated ever since its undue access to power in 2005.

 

AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA urges all organizations intervening in the field of human rights in Burundi as well as all individuals who abhor the ultimate evil, to demand the United Nations to put to trial the genocide suspects that it has identified in its investigations but who are still discharging public duties in Burundi including in the highest office.

 

Done at Toronto, on October 21st , 2020.

 

Emmanuel Nkurunziza

 

Secretary,

AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA