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Kabakobwa:Picking up the pieces after 1994

KABAKOBWA hill is one of the many places where, during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, thousands of Tutsis fleeing machete-wielding militias flocked with hope that they would get protection and safe haven.  Unfortunately, the places were turned into human butcheries, literally. In just weeks, hundreds of Tutsis, who had gathered at the small hill of Kabakobwa, were killed with the worst cruelty imagined: they were shelled, grenades hurled unto them and those who survived the bullets were later killed with machetes, clubs and other traditional weapons, according to testimonies from survivors.
Masons work at a Genocide memorial centre in Kabakobwa. Thousands of fleeing Tutsis from Ngoma commune and the surrounding districts took refuge in a church on the hill, only for the m....
Masons work at a Genocide memorial centre in Kabakobwa. Thousands of fleeing Tutsis from Ngoma commune and the surrounding districts took refuge in a church on the hill, only for the m....
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