Digital Commemoration

As we commemorate the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda #Kwibuka31, let us contribute to making digital spaces places of remembrance and learning. Kwibuka Twiyubaka.

“Mugihe twibuka ku nshuro ya 31 Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi, tuzirikana Imiryango yishwe ikazima, tuzirikana ubukana bwa Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi aho Imiryango yicwaga ntihagire n’umwe usigara wo kubara inkuru ntihagire n’umuturanyi ugerageza gutesha” -@AnitaKayirangwa | Umunyamuryango wa IBUKA #Ntukazime #NtukazimeNdiho #Kwibuka31

🕯️🤍Turabibuka mu buryo bwose 🕯️ Turibuka amazina yanyu 🕯️ Turibuka ibikorwa byanyu 🕯️ Turibuka imico myiza yanyu 🕯️ Turibuka urukundo rwanyu 🕯️ Turibuka ubupfura bwanyu 🕯️ Turibuka umurava wanyu 🕯️ Turibuka urugwiro rwanyu 🕯️ Turabibuka muri byose. 💭Uyu munsi twari kuba turi kumwe Mwari kuba mwubaka u Rwanda, ariko mwarishwe. 🕯️ Turibuka Imiryango 15, 593 yari igizwe n’Abatutsi 68, 871 yishwe ikazima. #NtukazimeNdiho #Ntukazime #Kwibuka31

21/4/1994, une date de la honte pour l’ONU et les États membres du Conseil de Sécurité de l’époque. En cette date, l’ONU a voté une scandaleuse résolution retirant ses casques bleus du Rwanda laissant un contingent symbolique de 270 hommes. L’ONU savait: 1) le 18-19/4/1994 le président Sindikubwabo, son premier ministre Kambanda et ses ministres Édouard Karemera, Eliezer Niyitegeka, Agnès Ntamabyaliro, Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, Emmanuel Ndindabahizi, Justin Mugenzi, Prosper Mugiraneza, Callixte Nzabonimana, Augustin Ngirabatware, Hyacinthe Rafiki Nsengiyumva, Daniel Mbangura, André Ntagerura… s’étaient déplacés pour accélérer le génocide dans des préfectures de Gitarama, Butare, Gikongoro, Cyangugu et Gisenyi 2) 19/4/1994: Le président Sindikubwabo a tenu un discours de mobilisation au génocide à Butare devant tous les responsables politiques, administratifs et militaires hutu 3) 21/4/1994, le génocide était consommé entièrement dans des préfectures de Byumba, Ruhengeri, Kibungo et Kigali Rural et dans une immense partie des préfectures de Kigali Ville, Kibuye, Gisenyi, Cyangugu, toute la sous-préfecture de Munini à Gikongoro: (Muganza, Nshili, Kibeho, Cyahinda…), les paroisses de Simbi, Nyumba, Nyakibanda à Butare… 3) 21/4/1994, une forte émission de mobilisation au génocide sur Radio Rwanda a été tenu par des politiciens extrémistes hutu power Shingiro Mbonyumutwa, Stanislas Mbonampeka, Édouard Karemera et Nsengiyumva Rafiki Hyacinthe. 4) CONSÉQUENCE: un cadeau offert aux génocidaires. Le 21/4/1994 les Tutsi encore survivants sont exterminés dans des préfectures de Gitarama, Butare et Gikongoro…faisant la date la plus meurtrière dans l’histoire du génocide des Tutsi. Plus de 250.000 Tutsi tués sur des sites comme Ntongwe, Kinazi, Nyanza, Butare Ville, Cyarwa, Tumba, Rango, Murambi, Cyanika, Kaduha…Déjà le 18/4/1994 les Tutsi avaient péri à Simbi, le 20/4/1994 des Tutsi de Gishamvu et Mugombwa à Butare avaient été massacrés, et aussi ailleurs. Le 21/4/1994 fut UNE JOURNÉE DE LA HONTE INTERNATIONALE. Et elle le restera. Elle est plus que gravée dans la mémoire de l’humanité. 5) les jours suivants, notamment le 22/4/1994, le génocide s’intensifiait à l’Université de Butare, Hôpital universitaire, Kansi, Kibilizi, Gisagara…Se poursuivait les jours suivants à Ruhashya, Songa, Musange, Mugina, Remera Rukoma, Rubengera, Mibilizi, Commune Rouge, Nyarushishi, Bisesero, etc. NOUS NE LES OUBLIONS PAS.

On this day in April 1994, during the Genocide against the Tutsi, over 250,000 Tutsi were killed in a single day. The killings happened in 34 locations across the southern prefectures of Gitarama, Gikongoro and Butare. Listen to the podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/7iJi01… #Kwibuka31

Join us for “Hora Mwana w’u Rwanda” — a meaningful youth-led remembrance event to honor the victims of the Genocide against the Tutsi and help shape a united future. 📌 April 18, 2025 ⏱️ 16:00 - 18:00 📍 Nyanza - Kicukiro Genocide Memorial “Youth, when we move, we move forward and never forget.” #Kwibuka31 #IBUKA #IBUKAYouth

Raphaël Murekezi Fatikaramu ( Dad) Muriel Usanase (sister) #Kwibuka31

Abicanyi bashoreye SEBANANI Andre bagiye kumwica; bati: “Ihute tugende, tugereyo vuba.” SEBANANI Arabasuzi ati: “Nimwihute mwe muri bugaruke” #Kwibuka31

Padiri Joseph Gatare A grenade was thrown at him and he was shot several times in Mukarange on April 12, 1994. He died the next morning while reciting a rosary. He practiced Shotokan and loved sports. #Kwibuka31

My Family 💔13/04💔 Nzabahoza k' Umutima

I remember the day a machete struck my head— Not because of anything I did, But simply because I was born a Tutsi. I survived. But my cousin, Marie Ange Mukunzi, did not. She was taken— A life full of laughter, hope, and dreams, Cut short. Today, I remember her. I remember the children we hid with. I remember the faces whose names I never learned— Those lost in silence, in terror, in unimaginable pain. Those taken across Rwanda, in places where the world wasn’t watching. I speak because they can’t. I live because I survived. But I carry their memory with me—every single day. Ange, and all of you, You are not forgotten. You are not gone. You live on in us. I remember. Always. #Kwibuka31 #AngeMukunzi #NeverForgotten #StillAlive

If you were unable to join us for the screening, you can watch the film on YouTube 👇🏾 youtube.com/watch?v=T9DOER… You can also join us for the Zoom Q&A with Samuel Ishimwe at 8:35 PM. us06web.zoom.us/j/82805521877?… Meeting ID: 828 0552 1877 Passcode: 920120 #Kwibuka31

Happening now 📍: Cine Mayaka

12.04.💔💔💔 The wounds are still Fresh and deep. N’uyumunsi Ndacyabunamiye sindata igiti.. Ntimuzazima na gato. #Kwibuka31

Rugamba Cyprien and Daphrosa Rugamba were killed with six of their 10 children in their house of Kigali at the beginning of Genocide against TUTSI in 1994. Thread.👀 #Kwibuka31

Remembering my neighbors and childhood friends In this photo, Cyicyi places his hand on Poussette’s head. Diane Uwera stands behind Emery. These four siblings from the Muhiza family in Gatagara were all killed and thrown into their family’s latrine during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. I am grateful to Charlotte, their eldest sister who survived and now lives in the USA, for sharing this precious photo as she knows how I am connected to them. After my family survived the Bagogwe massacre in 1992, we relocated to Gatagara, in Nyanza District where we became close neighbors with the Muhiza family. I attended the same primary school as Cyicyi and Diane , we walked to and from school together. Like many children, they enjoyed teasing me and starting conversations just to hear me speak, amused by my northern Kinyarwanda accent. Every word I said made them laugh. They would even joke that I wasn’t Rwandan, calling me “Mukiga.” Even as children, Cyicyi and Uwera were curious. They used to ask me what the Interahamwe looked like, as Gatagara was then dominated by opposition parties like PL, PSD, and MDR, before the rise of the extremist faction. Just days later, Cyicyi, Uwera, Poussette, and Emery would witness the unimaginable cruelty of the Interahamwe as former members of PL and MDR had transformed into “pawa,” indistinguishable from the Interahamwe and CDR members. Muhiza, an entrepreneur originally from Gikongoro, was married to two sisters. Together with his two wives and their seven children, he was brutally murdered during the genocide. We will always remember your faces. #Kwibuka31

#Kwibuka31 SHARITE Ephrem na MUTETELI Thérèse... MUHE IZINA N’ISURA EJO ATAZAZIMA BURUNDU. Source: Remember Genocide against the Tutsi in 1959-1994(Facebook)

Papa wanjye, barumuna banjye, iteka ryose! ❤️💔

31 years later… I remember you Papa Mukuru Charles, Mama mukuru Adele; my Tantines & Tontons; my cousins. I always wonder how life with you all would have been… One thing is sure narikuba ndi umutesi. I miss you even though I don’t remember you. I miss you even though I never met you. Ndabibuka. #Kwibuka31

I watched Samuel Ishimwe’s powerful documentary #ReclaimingHistory last year, and I highly recommend it to anyone seeking to understand the depth of colonial efforts to divide us. It is a must-watch! #Kwibuka31