{"id":41207,"date":"2019-04-23T07:38:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T05:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/41207-rwanda-at-the-heart-of-the-memory.html"},"modified":"2023-09-21T18:17:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T16:17:42","slug":"rwanda-at-the-heart-of-the-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/41207-rwanda-at-the-heart-of-the-memory.html","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda: at the heart of the memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Kigali Memorial in Gisozi, where more than 250,000 victims are buried, is at the heart of the memory of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/120135-genocide-tutsis-rwanda-causes-what-happened-justice.html\">genocide perpetrated against the Tutsis in 1994<\/a> and of a question it raises: how to reconcile memory with policies of unity and reconciliation?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On D-2 of the 25th commemoration of the genocide, a literary caf\u00e9 and an international symposium composed of writers, historians and researchers proposed a memorial policy focused on writing as a \u201cbridge between the past and the future\u201d. When on 7 April, five heads of state, including host Paul Kagame and heads of government, lit the flame of hope, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel declared that he was there \u201con behalf of a country that also wanted to assume, eye to eye, its share of responsibility in the face of history\u201d. But when you enter the Gisozi Memorial, the equations may seem dizzy. In this death gallery, a guide explains that more than 250,000 victims are buried here! That is at least a quarter of the one million Tutsis killed in 100 days between April and July 1994. When no less than 220 genocide memorials mark out, from North to South and from East to West, this small country of 26,338 km2; not to mention of course the thousands of people without a grave.<\/p>\n<p>The amazement remains when the guide explains that a studded club, called <em>Ntampongano y\u2019umwanzi<\/em>, literally No concession to the enemy, is among the weapons that have killed the most people. \u201cWe expected instead that a weapon of mass destruction would be mentioned,\u201d whispered a journalist as he did for himself. The history of this genocide at a glance? \u201cYes, the story of our dead, our story is better told here in a memorial than in a book, with living testimonies,\u201d explains Martin, a survivor from Kinyinya, a district of Kigali, whose \u201cmore than fifty relatives\u201d including his wife and five children lie in this memorial.<\/p>\n<h3>Memorials, assets of the State<\/h3>\n<p>In the immediate aftermath of the genocide, the survivors, with the support of the police, began to bury their dead, sometimes in disorder, with the intention of giving them a decent burial. And when the State takes in hand a few instruments of memory such as \u201cburial in dignity of victims\u201d, the creation of memorials and the organization of national commemorations, the country is already full of family graves and genocide cemeteries. Thus, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnlg.gov.rw\/fileadmin\/user_upload\/Official_Gazette_no_22_of_30.05.2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Act No. 15\/2016 of 2 May 2016 regulating the ceremonies of commemoration of the genocide perpetrated against Tutsis and the organization and management of genocide memorial sites<\/a> will be promulgated with the objective of meeting the challenges related to the management, maintenance and security of the many cemeteries and memorials scattered throughout the country. Under the new legislation, these memorial sites are now all part of the national heritage and are placed under the responsibility of the National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG), a government institution provided for in the 2003 Constitution and established in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CNLG, there are nearly 210 memorials in the country, but only six are classified as \u201cnational level\u201d. These are Gisozi, in the city of Kigali, Nyarubuye, Nyamata and Ntarama, in eastern Rwanda, and Bisesero and Murambi, in the southwest of the country. Each of these six memorials has a \u201cparticular national historical significance with regard to the planning and execution of the genocide perpetrated against the Tutsis,\u201d explains Jean-Damasc\u00e8ne Bizimana, Executive Secretary of the CNLG. Four of these six memorials, namely Gisozi, Nyamata, Bisesero and Murambi, were also submitted to UNESCO in 2012 for inscription on the World Heritage List. The case is still pending. In addition to these national memorials, the country has district memorials - at least one for each of the 30 administrative districts. According to the law, \u201ceach district has at least one memorial site\u201d determined on the basis of \u201ca historical aspect of the genocide\u201d in this administrative entity.<\/p>\n<h3>Four memorials proposed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites<\/h3>\n<p>Murambi, in the heart of a region, the Southwest, where more than 20,000 Tutsis had already been massacred in 1963, is according to the CNLG \u201cthe oldest laboratory for the genocide of the Tutsis\u201d. At that time, some foreign media and researchers had already referred to these pogroms as \u201cgenocide\u201d. Murambi also symbolizes, according to Kigali, foreign involvement in the genocide. French soldiers of the Operation Turquoise are accused by Rwanda not only of covering the perpetration of serious crimes in 1994 but also of having themselves committed murder and rape. Paris has always denied these accusations.<\/p>\n<p>Nyamata, named after a church where tens of thousands of Tutsis were massacred in 1994, in a single day, is the symbol of the extreme desacralization of places of worship transformed into slaughterhouses during the genocide. The victims are surviving descendants of the Tutsis deported in 1959 to this inhospitable region, which was then infested with tsetse flies, to be exterminated. Bisesero, nearly 150 km away, on the Congo-Nile ridge, symbolizes the resistance of the Tutsis who sold their skin dearly in 1994. The Tutsi men of this place, armed with stones, spears, bows and arrows, withdrew from the heights and in vain resisted the attackers equipped with guns and grenades.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Kigali is not a direct site of the genocide, unlike the first three. It is a memorial where the bodies of victims killed throughout the capital are buried. Among these, mainly Rwandan, there are also foreigners whom the executioners assimilated to the Tutsis or considered as their accomplices. The Kigali Memorial, part of which traces other genocides perpetrated around the world, represents this universality of victims. For the CNLG, \u201crecognizing these sites as a memorial to humanity is an effective strategy to combat the crime of genocide and crimes against humanity, genocidal and negationist ideology\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3>Towards a unified memory policy<\/h3>\n<p>First, before being scheduled from April 7 to 13, the official commemorative week runs from April 6, the date of the crash of the plane of former President Juvenal Habyarimana, considered to be the detonator of the genocide. This creates serious friction between a government of \u201cnational unity\u201d and Ibuka, the main survivor organization. \u201cBy including it on April 6, the State itself fell into the trap of revisionism or even negationism,\u201d said one of its former leaders. From 1994 to 2003, different terms are used in Kinyarwanda to refer to the same genocide, which are also confusing. Thus the terms <em>Intambara<\/em> (war), <em>Itsembabwoko<\/em> (massacre of a group), <em>Itsembatsemba<\/em> (massacre) or <em>Itsembabatutsi<\/em> (massacre of Tutsis) are commonly used. We will wait for the 2003 Constitution to harmonize with the kinyarwanda\u2019s borrowing of the term <em>jenoside<\/em>, itself replaced by the expression <em>jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi<\/em>, \u201cgenocide committed against Tutsis\u201d with the 2008 constitutional reform.<\/p>\n<p>What is the status of all memorials? What is the place of those built by survivors\u2019 associations or families? Are they all state-owned? The year 2008 marks a decisive turning point in the definition of memory policy, with a legislative arsenal that defines the responsibilities of the CNLG, in charge of the management of memorials and memory policy. This law seems to \u201cnationalize\u201d the places of memory of the genocide and leave no room for individual mourning and family graves. Its amendment, in 2016, provides for consultation with families to consolidate family graves in memorials. Although \u201cwhat the state wants is the law,\u201d says Christophe, a survivor of the Nyamata massacre, ironically, before adding: \u201cWhat could I do? My mother and brothers were taken from me, which still bound me to my home. I don't want to go back there anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cLet\u2019s commemorate by developing\u201d<\/h3>\n<p><em>Kwibuka25<\/em> \u2013 the official term given to the 25-year anniversaries \u2013 brings a new curriculum of commemoration, with only two days in the village. Yet it is here that survivors and former executioners live in promiscuity. \u201cYou can no longer see yourself in it! And soon, from our sinister history, only what the State has wanted to keep will remain,\u201d regrets a Kigali survivor on the evening of April 7, the first day of the official commemorative week. On the agenda for the day, the theme prepared by the CNLG was \u201cThe organization and execution of the genocide perpetrated against the Tutsis\u201d. At the dessert scheduled for April 10, \u201cthe policies put in place to fight the ideology of genocide\u201d. And this in all the villages of the country. However, April remains, for this same survivor, \u201ca propitious time to cry with others, to express his pain in public and thus have my cure\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, unlike previous commemorations, the population in the village has two days to observe the mourning, but they are also allowed to go about their activities, except for recreational and festive ones. Probably in the spirit of the theme now devoted to all commemorations, <em>Twibuke twiyubaka<\/em>, literally \u201cLet\u2019s commemorate while we grow\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, commemorations have focused on examples of socio-economic recovery of survivors to the detriment of the narrative of the horror suffered. Fewer shocking and horrible images on the screens. However, there is no official ban on survivors reporting their ordeal, nor on their executioners reporting their crimes, as Jean-Damasc\u00e8ne Bizimana explains. \u201cWe only give the main orientations,\u201d he says. According to psychologist specialists, however, including Ibuka\u2019s president Jean-Pierre Dusingizemungu, himself a survivor, this typically Rwandan tendency to hide his emotions is said to be the cause of psychosomatic disorders. Dusingizemungu castigates the practice of violence against oneself by not crying, to remain faithful to the Rwandan tradition according to which \u201ca man\u2019s tears flow inward\u2019.<\/p>\n<h3>Why commemorate?<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI was ashamed to accept myself and say I was a survivor,\u201d said a widow who survived the massacres at the Nyarubuye church where her entire family, including her five children and her husband, had died. All killed by neighbors. She had decided to live far from her land, and carried within her status as a survivor like a wilt. For Professor Fran\u00e7ois Masabo, an academic and researcher on the process of conflict transformation and genocide memories, the Tutsi genocide survivor is completely uprooted and foreign to his community, not only because of the extermination of his family and the destruction of his home but also and especially because his immediate neighbours are the perpetrators. By returning to his community to commemorate, \u201che is gradually rebuilding his roots and identity in his community\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion of this 25th commemoration, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recalled the importance of preventing genocide through commemoration: \u201c<em>I call on all political, religious and civil society leaders to reject hate speech and discrimination, and to work vigorously to address and mitigate the root causes that undermine social cohesion and create conditions for hatred and intolerance<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-encadre\" style=\"margin-top: 30px;\">\n<p><strong>NYANZA: A GARDEN OF MEMORY<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA nightmare journey that ends with Alice in Wonderland, life after death!\u201d Fran\u00e7ois Uwitonze, a genocide survivor, talks about the Nyanza Memorial Garden, Kigali, inaugurated on April 8 by Jeannette Kagame, Rwanda\u2019s first lady, as part of the 25th commemoration of the genocide against the Tutsis in 1994. Uwitonze[an alias], was six years old during the massacres on Nyanza Hill, where his entire family stayed.<\/p>\n<p>For the first lady, this garden \u201cwill serve as a link and will remain a conversation between the past, the present and the future\u201d. Bruce Clarke, the English artist who designed it, believes that \u201cthis [garden] is not an ordinary garden. Each element here is an allegory of suffering and refuge, despair and hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A large stele just at the entrance to the garden, flowers and trees, stream crossings, and even pits. The Nyanza Memory Garden is becoming a reality. Its promiscuity with the graves of genocide victims makes it a symbol of life after death but also a living symbol of the memory of genocide, according to the National Commission to Combat Genocide.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Un monument de pierre, dans le Jardin de la m\u00e9moire inaugur\u00e9 \u00e0 Nyanza le 8 avril 2019.\" src=\"media\/Rwanda-Nyanza-genocide-memorial_Yasuyoshi-CHIBA-AFP.jpg\" alt=\"Un monument de pierre, dans le Jardin de la m\u00e9moire inaugur\u00e9 \u00e0 Nyanza le 8 avril 2019.\" \/><figcaption>A stone monument, in the Garden of Memory inaugurated in Nyanza on April 8, 2019.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Garden of Memory is an integral part of the Nyanza Memorial Site, which already houses more than 12,000 bodies of victims, including 5,000 massacred after being abandoned on 11 April 1994 by a Belgian contingent of Minuar forces, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda. Thus, for Bruce Clarke, this garden, whose artistic contours symbolize the plural aspect of the genocide, is certainly a garden of memory, but \u201cnot of a single memory, but of many\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sections of the garden include a stone space, a memory forest, mounds, a meditation corridor, an open pit and spiral paths. In the middle of the garden, stones representing the victims are and will be placed by their families. In the Memory Forest, located in the heart of the garden, three types of trees will be planted: <em>Ficus Thonningii<\/em>, planted by Mrs. Kagame as a symbol of family, <em>Erythrina Abyssinica<\/em>, a symbol of protection and beauty, and <em>Acacia Abyssinia<\/em> for resilience and resistance. The different sections of the garden are connected by spiral paths symbolizing the spiral of planned violence that Rwanda had to go through.<\/p>\n<p>Located on the main artery linking Kigali to the Bugesera region in the south-east, and thus at the crossroads of four important genocide memorials, that of Gisozi, that of the politicians of Rebero, and the churches of Nyamata and Ntarama, this garden offers \u201can ideal place for meditation and reflection for both Rwandan and foreign visitors. A springboard in the fight against genocidal and negationist ideology,\u201d says Jean-Damasc\u00e8ne Karinda, Commissioner in charge of justice at Ibuka, the main association of genocide survivors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kigali Memorial in Gisozi, where more than 250,000 victims are buried, is at the heart of the memory of the genocide perpetrated against the Tutsis in 1994 and of a question it raises: how to reconcile memory with policies of unity and reconciliation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":62006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[549],"tags":[],"ji_location":[2431],"class_list":["post-41207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reconciliation","ji_location-rwanda"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3.1 (Yoast SEO v25.3.1) - 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