Remember the Genocide Against the Hutu

[Rwanda]

Remember the Genocide Against the Hutu

HUTU VICTIMS OF THE GENOCIDAL KILLINGS PERPETRATED BY THE INKOTANYI AT BIRIKO CAMP KILLINGS

On 17 December 1996, the Tutsi killers of the Rwandan Patriotic Army under the command of Gen Paul Kagame, attacking from Ziralo (South Kivu), Bunyakiri (South Kivu) and Ngungu (North Kivu), encircled the makeshift camps at Biriko and massacred hundreds of Hutu refugees and Hutu Congolese civilians, including women and children.

The Tutsi Genocidaires of RPF-Inkotanyi shot dead the Hutu victims dead or crushed their skulls with hoes.

The Congolese people of Biriko buried the bodies of the Hutu victims in the village.

Many bodies were also dumped in the Nyawaranga River.

The victims were Rwandan Hutu refugees who could not reach the main road between Bukavu and Walikale before the Tutsi killers of RPF-Inkotanyi took control of the tarmac road between Hombo and Walikale.

Knowing what had happened at the Hombo Bridge, these Hutu refugees had to turn back towards Masisi and the majority set up home temporarily in the village of Biriko in the Walowa-Luanda Groupement. (OHCHR, 2010)

As reported by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in the Report Of The Mapping Exercise Documenting the Most Serious Violations Of Human Rights And International Humanitarian Law Committed Within The Territory Of The Democratic Republic Of The Congo Between March 1993 And June 2003, these Rwandan Hutu refugees and Hutu Congolese civilians had arrived in Walikale territory in November 1996 via three different routes.

One group, which came from Bukavu, reached Walikale territory via Bunyakiri. A second group, also from Bukavu, travelled through the Kahuzi-Biega forest via Nyabibwe. A final group, which had fled the camps of North Kivu, reached Walikale territory via southern Masisi territory and the towns of Busurungi and Biriko.

Pursued by the Tutsi Genocidaires of RPF-Inkotanyi, the slowest Hutu refugees were indiscriminately attacked and massacred by those aforementioned Tutsi killers of RPF-Inkotanyi.