THE BURUNDI GOVERNMENT PROHIBITS
AC GÉNOCIDE
CIRIMOSO
FROM HOLDING THE 29th COMMEMORATION OF THE OCTOBER 21, 1993 GENOCIDAL MURDER OF
150 TUTSI STUDENTS AT LYCEE KIBIMBA.
STATEMENT BY AC GENOCIDE CANADA
AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA recalls that the perpetrators of this crime are the leaders of the then ruling FRODEBU party, biologically and ideologically the forefathers of today’s ruling CNDD-FDD genocidist and terrorist organization, which is renowned for, among other things, its affiliation with other genocidal militias that flourished in the Great Lakes Region, starting from the 1990’s.
AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA points out that in addition to torturing morally the survivors and members of the victims’ families whose are arbitrarily deprived of their rights to carry out their duty of memory, these discriminatory measures which single out the AC GENOCIDE CIRIMOSO association violate Article 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which provides for individuals rights to peaceful gathering and to not being forced into the activities of another organization
On the one hand, the regime
compelled them to purge from their appellation any reference to sites that are
synonymous with the Tutsi genocide. For example, the Interior Ministry forbade
the Kibimba survivors to have “Kibimba” in their appellation and forced them to
be registered as ARG instead. As well, the survivors of the massacres that
targeted the Tutsi at Buta Junior Seminary on April 30th, 1997, were
made to adopt the appellation “Lumière du Monde” instead of their intended
ASOREBUTA or “Association des Rescapés de Buta.”
On the other hand, the
incumbent regime unconditionally allowed Zirikana UB, a Hutu-friendly
association, to keep in their appellation the UB acronym, clearly referring to
the University of Burundi, a site which the proponents of the said organization
connects to the death of Hutu students only while ignoring totally the Tutsi
students who were killed in that institution by militiamen loyal to today’s
ruling CNDD-FDD. Not only does the CNDD-FDD regime turn a blind eye to that
occultation of the Tutsi memory but it also provides media coverage for
commemoration events held by the said organization, in addition to sending in
its representatives.
FOR ALL THOSE REASONS:
AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA encourages the victims of the Tutsi genocide not to be intimidated by the incumbent regime, whose newly-found tactics to delay the prosecution of the mass murderers and other criminals in office, is to distract the stakeholders by taking more and more measures that violates human rights.
Done at Toronto, on October 20th, 2022.
Secretary,
AC GÉNOCIDE CANADA