Kinigi, Nyange, and part of Musanze in Musanze District were part of Kinigi Municipality, one of the 16 that made up Ruhengeri Prefecture.Why no Tutsi was killed in Kinigi in 1994
In the history of the Genocide against the Tutsi in 1994 in Rwanda, the Kinigi commune has the distinction of not having any Tutsis killed. Instead, Genocide took place in 1991, in which many Tutsis were killed.
It is a long testimony given by Munyarutete Joseph who survived in Kinigi, and now represents Ibuka in the Kinigi sector. He asks the youth against those who underestimate the Genocide against the Tutsis, who want to say that it was caused by the prediction of the plane of President Juvénal Habyarimana, on April 6, 1994.
It is a time when the evidence clearly shows that it is a plan that has been planned for a long time and has been tried many times.
The Inkotanyi attack in Ruhengeri in 1993 caused the Tutsis who were still in Kinigi to flee; they went to other areas that had already been liberated.Why no Tutsi was killed in Kinigi in 1994
Ibi ni byo byatumye Kinigi igira umwihariko wo kuba nta Mututsi wahiciwe mu 1994.
Ati “Mu 1994 nta muntu wo gupfa wari akiri mu yahoze ari Komini Kinigi. Igihamya gihari ni uko Inkotanyi zabatwaye ku gitero cy’iya 8 Gashyantare 1993. Zaraje bamwe zibakura muri Komini Mukingo aho bari barahungiye zibajyana muri Butaro aho zari zarafashe.”
“Ntabwo mvuga ko mu 1994 nta Mututsi wo mu Kinigi wapfuye, yarapfuye ariko wenda yari muri Komini Kigombe cyangwa yarahungiye mu yandi maperefegitura, hano bahagarutse Leta yaramaze kubohoza.”
Munyarutete avuga ko Umututsi wa mbere yishwe ku wa 27 Mutarama1991, uwa nyuma apfa ku wa 23 Gashyantare 1991. Avuga ko ikibabaje ari uko kugerageza Jenoside muri aka gace byakozwe n’abagore.
Ati “FPR Inkotanyi yafunguye Gereza ya Ruhengeri ku wa 23 Mutarama 1991, ndabyibuka neza hari ku wa Gatatu. Mu bantu bacu bari bafunze nk’ibyitso hafunguwemo uwitwa Eliya nyiri Wisdom (Ishuri) ndetse n’umusaza witwa Bagayindiro Samuel ariko we ntiyajyana n’Inkotanyi.”
“Bagaindiro arrived home and found that they had fled and followed his family. When he arrived in Bisate, the women were the ones who killed him. Our sad history is that the parents, the women, the champions, who opened the Genocide, killed him on the 26th, which was a Sabbath, I remember!”
Munyarutete says that among the last people killed was his father who was killed on February 23, 1991. He insists that Habyarimana’s plane was destroyed without a Tutsi in Kinigi Municipality because they had all fled.
He says that during the great journey of life, he went through, he spent about four months without staying at home. He explains that he has bought money somewhere so that he will not be killed.
He said, “I fled to Mukingo, there was a Hutu boy we knew, he gave 5000 Frw, in 1991 it was a lot of money, I told him where he was going and he told me that they killed me! Ya sure we were tired, I went to hide a 12-year-old dog and saw me screaming that there is a snake !”
Munyarutete Joseph today was married, he owned a car and he always drove his hunters in it and it cost nothing.
He asked the Musanze District to do something in education because there are three cells he says contain the bodies of those killed but the people have not yet given information about where their bodies are.
The Kinigi Genocide Memorial has 166 bodies buried there.
