Rwanda

Rwanda’s “Red Commune”, a killing field of the genocide

At the time of the 1994 genocide, Gisenyi prefecture in northwest Rwanda was, like other prefectures, divided into communes. But the “Red Commune” does not appear on administrative maps of the time. It is not in fact an administrative entity but a cemetery where Tutsis were brought in 1994 to be killed and thrown into […]
By Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro in Gisenyi, northwest Rwanda
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