\nKigali, 15 July 2008 (FH) - The main association of survivors of the genocide in Rwanda (IBUKA), says that some 167 survivors of the genocide were murdered between 1995 in mid-May 2008.
\nIn a report compiled by the association and which is about to be published, since beginning of this year until mid-May, 12 murders were registered, which is about 7.\n<\/p>\n
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\n2% of the total number of victims since 1995.
\nThese murders have not only targeted victims, but also witnesses and judges (Inyangamugayo) and members of the semi-traditional Gacaca courts. The Gacaca courts are not presided by professional judges by members of high integrity within the community.
\nThe study indicates that some 64 of the 167 recorded victims were reportedly poisoned and whereas some 103 others were killed by using either firearms, traditional weapons, strangulation or were burnt to death.
\nAccording to Dieudonne Kayitare, Head of Legal Department, however, the figure was lower than the reality. \u201cMany of the survivors die in circumstances that are extremely mysterious circumstances and sometime unreported,\u2019\u2019 he told Hirondelle Agency.
\nAccording to a woman, a member of the Association of Widows of the Genocide (AVEGA), \u201cleniency, close to general amnesty, announced by the policy in regards to the authors of the genocide, stimulates the latter to continue to kill us. They know that after all there will be pardon\u2026 as if we are livestock at an abattoir\u201d.
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