Wednesday, October 15, 2008

The 2004 Gatumba Massacre in Burundi


This story might as well be a comic strip titled “Tin tin’s Adventures in Congo” or a bad Hollywood movie.


It is sad when men, women, and children are forced to abandon their lives, their fortunes, and their loved ones to go live in a foreign land because they are no longer wanted by their countrymen.


The conflict in Congo produced gave rise to a generation of orphans with injured bodies and minds. Many are handicapped by the trauma that they saw, heard about, and endured, during a string of massacres visited on the Banyamulenge people, starting during in 1964 during the reign of the Mulele. More children were lost in a massacre at a refugee camp in Gatumba, Burundi in 2004, when the camp was attacked and there was no one to protect them.


It is true that many men, women, and children are hated in Congo because they call themselves Banyamulenge

2 comments:

RAMIRA said...

ABANYAMURENGE NIMUHAGURUKE

TWISHIMIYE UKUNTU ABANTU BINSHI BAMAZE KUMENYA KO IBIBAZO BYACU TUZABYIKEMURI. AKUMUHANA KAZA IMVURA IHISE.
MUKOMERE TURWANE URUGAMBA TUZARUTSINDA, AKARENGANE KADUKORERWAGO TUZA KAMARAHO BURUNDU.

YARI SERUKIZA CHAMIR WA MUREMBE

RAMIRA said...

NOUS PORTONS A VOTRE CONNAISSANCE QU'IL EST NAIT UNE FONDATION APPELEE "TUBARAMIREFAUD". CETTE ASSOCIATION EST NEE AU MOMENT OPPORTUN, LE MOMEMT OU NOTRE COMMUTAUTE EST EN TRAIT DE SOUFFRIR SUITE AUX PROBLEMES QUI PRENENT LEURS SOURCES DANS LE PASSE.
L'HEURE A SONNE OU TOUT LE MONDE VA SE LEVER COMME UN SEUL HOMME POUR LUTTER CONTRE L'EXTERMINATION QUI NOUS guette.