\nRwamagana, 15 April 2008(FH) - The victims of the 1994 genocide of the Mwulire sector in Rwamagana district, Eastern Province, waged a hard fought resistance to their attackers but succumbed to their strength and large numbers, Hirondelle Agency has learned.\n<\/p>\n
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\n"We held back for a quite a while the attacks of the Interahamwe militia by means of stones, bows and spears. Seeing that we were not giving up, they [attackers] called upon gendarmes and soldiers of the presidential guard. Many among us fell to the bullets from their guns in the attack... We are a handful of people to have survived ", said Francois Rutareka, a former counsellor in the sector when giving personal experience at the closing ceremony of the mourning week in Rwamagana district on Sunday.\n<\/p>\n
\nOne of acts of bravery of insurgents in Mwulire, explained the sixty-year old Rutareka, was that they killed two police officers and the vehicle of soldiers was set on fire using banana leafs.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe occasion also gave a decent burial to some 3, 048 exhumed victims. The memorial site, which hosted the10th national commemoration in 2004, holds remains of about 15 000 victims.\n<\/p>\n
\nMr Jean Baptist Ndanyuzwe, Deputy Mayor in charge of economic affairs who represented the government of the district, called on the population to "fight strongly against genocide ideology as a befitting reward worthy of the bravery of the victims in Mwulire".\n<\/p>\n
\nHe also urged unconditional assistance to genocide survivors and to the participation in the development activities in the country.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe vice-president of IBUKA (Rwamagana district), association of genocide victims, Mrs Immaculee Mukankubito, regretted the insecurity of the survivors and minimal support rendered to them.\n<\/p>\n
\nFor nearly three years, the official commemoration of the genocide has been marked from 7 to 13 April. However, IBUKA commemorates until July thus covering the 100 sinister days of the 1994 genocide of largely ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus.\n<\/p>\n
\nAccording to the UN estimates, about 800,000 people were killed in the nation-wide attacks.\n<\/p>\n
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