Every Year during the Genocide commemoration week, Ngarambe Zenock a genocide survivor resident at Ngoma district has to come to terms with one of the worst torments.
Ngarambe told IGIHE that unknown people during this commemoration period, attack his home by smearing his house with urine and human faeces. This 6th April the same was done to his house again.
Ngarambe, whose children and family were killed during the 1994 Tutsis genocide, says that in 2010, he received a tract saying:” we will get you by whatever means, and we will burst that belly of yours”.
This is the third time Ngarambe is being terrorised with similar attacks. It once happened in 2011 where they carried baskets and calabash full of human faeces and also painted his house with urine and faeces.
Ngarambe says he is traumatised by such attacks. The attackers always perform similar acts at the beginning of the genocide commemoration week.
Ngarambe told IGIHE, “attackers must be from this neighborhood. I think they are more than one people because a single person cannot carry all those baskets and calabash full of faeces.”
Umwari Médiatrice another genocide survivor, a neighbour of Ngarambe had alo been encountering such attacks. Recently, she has been brutally attacked and injured that she was unable to speak.
The executive secretary of Cyasemakamba sector Kamanzi Lucien said: “We patrolled and safeguarded the house the whole night till the patrol shifted at 4:00 Am to another place, but at that shift moment, that’s when they attacked. We are now strengthening the security here, and once they get caught, they will be severely punished”.
The Acting Mayor of Ngoma District, Mupenzi George, said, “measures have been taken to strengthen the security.”
He also called upon Ngarambe’s neighbours to be supportive in ensuring genocide survivors’ security.
Police Spokesperson Supt. Theos Badege said that they are still carrying on the investigation to find out who are behind those acts.
Until now, no suspect has been identified.
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