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Encyclopedia > Kibuye

Kibuye is a market town in western Rwanda, lying on the eastern shore of Lake Kivu. It is known as a beach resort and is home to a genocide memorial marking the massacre of the town's Tutsi population in the Rwandan Civil War. The Ndaba Falls lie near the town. The market town is a medieval phenomenon. ... Categories: Africa geography stubs | Great Rift Valley lakes | African lakes ... The seafront of Torquay, a seaside resort in Devon, England. ... Wiktionary has a definition of: Genocide Genocide has been defined as the deliberate killing of people based on their ethnicity, nationality, race, religion, or (sometimes) politics, as well as other deliberate actions leading to the physical elimination of any of the above categories. ... The Tutsi are one of three native peoples of the nations of Rwanda and Burundi in central Africa: the other two being the Twa and the Hutu. ... The skulls of victims show gashes and signs of violence The Rwandan Genocide was the organized murder of up to one million Rwandans in 1994. ...


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[30 Oct 1998] L/2902 : KAYISHEMA/RUZINDANA TRIAL CLOSE TO COMPLETION (819 words)
Kayishema, 44, is a former Prefect (Governor) of Kibuye region in Rwanda and a medical doctor.
Ruzindana, 39, a native of Kibuye and a relatively wealthy former businessman based in Kigali, is charged with six counts of genocide, crimes against humanity (murder, extermination and other inhumane acts) and violations of the article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions and its Additional Protocol II.
Ruzindana is alleged to have ordered several massacres in Kibuye and to have directly shot and hacked to death several victims himself, using various tricks to flush out from hiding those who had survived previous attacks.
Guardian | Town whose senses are dead to slaughter (588 words)
The citizens of Kibuye, neat and clean in their Sunday best, squeezed on to the pews of their only church.
It lingered as a reminder of the extermination of a section of Kibuye's population that, if the townspeople are to be believed, never occurred.
In Kibuye, UN investigators could begin by examining the role of the prefect and the local army commander, his troops and the gendarmes.
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