We remember October 2006, when the USA announced that it would welcome more than 10,000 refugees from Burundi who had lived in camps in Tanzania since 1972. Today it was the turn for the Congolese survivors on the Gatumba massacre in Burundi. A representative from the UN High Council on Refugees made the announcement.
As individuals and humanitarians, we thank the Americans for this great act of generosity. However, there remain many other Banyamulenges in need of assistance: survivors of the 1998 massacre in Lumbubashi, in Kalmia, in Vyura, Gatanga, and the 1996 massacre in Bibokobongo in Fizi, in 2004 in Bukavu in the South Kivu, and other refugees who are displaced from their homes and continue to eke out a living in Burundi.
We call for justice on behalf of the survivors. An international tribunal should be created to try those responsible for war crimes. Not only did those (military leaders? Civilian leaders? The populace?) responsible push the “undesirables” out of their homeland, but visited violence and death upon them in the camps where they resettled across the border in another country, a place of supposed peace and security.
It is my opinion that the United States should prevail upon the United Nations to try these criminals.
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IAM RUSHIMIRWA PAUL KANYABYINSHI iam a munyamulenge, and iam a surviver of ikabera mubibogobogo, my mather, my father and my rother and my 3 sister were assacinated along with ather many peaple because we are tutsi; thought i survived i do not feel peace in my heart because of what i saw during 1996 in genocide of banyamulenge, my heart is overwhelmed by excessive sorrow, oh GOD what can i do to get peace?, what happened in burundi in 2004 banyamulenge also were killed this offended me a lot, it is really beyond descruption.
Who really can speak up for us orphans from DRC? Some orphans were taken as captive in TANZANIA, since 1996 FROM BARAKA and RWEBA where this killing was taking place. THEY still hidden in tanzania in camp refugees,they are treated in wrong way as captive, some of them were made their ilegal wives, please we plead and coll on international communities or any other munyamulenge or any person to speak up for us , banyamulenge tusi orphans/CAPTIVES who are taken in TANZANIA FROM south kivu baraka in DRC after the killing of their parents. OH God what ca we do? who can deliver us? we need your sucor.
BANYAMULENGE SURVIVORS BE PATIENT, wherever you are scattered.
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