SOUTHERN PROVINCE

RUHANGO — Thirty students of Ecole Technique Indangaburezi have been arrested over a recent riot at school.

The students currently being held at Ruhango Police Post were this week involved in a scuffle with security agents after they blocked the arrest of their 4th-year colleague, Etienne Ndizihiwe.

The incident took place on August 20 at the school and students pelted security officials with stones. The security personnel had sought to arrest the student on orders of the school headmaster, Eng. Albert Murangira, who accused the student of disobedience by failing to bring his parents to school.

One security personnel identified as Gilbert was injured in the scuffle and a police truck damaged before the situation was calmed.

Sources at school say the students rioted because the Headmaster had on several occasions demanded for Ndizihiwe’s parents and yet the boy is a genocide orphan. The head teacher’s insistence was taken as an insult.

"The student missed second term exams after he was sent to collect parents, yet he is an orphan supported by FARG. To us this appeared an insult and a cause of the riot,” a student said.

Efforts to get comments from the headmaster were futile as he declined to speak to Journalists.

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