On Thursday 28th April 2022, the Ministry of Interior (MININTER), the  Ministry of Local Government (MINALOC), the Ministry of Public Services and Labour (MIFOTRA) and Rwanda Directorate General of Immigration and Emigration (DGIE) commemorated employees of the former Ministry of Public Service (MINIFOP), Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MINITRASO) and those of the Ministry of the Interior and Communal Development who were killed in the Genocide committed against the Tutsi in 1994.

Activities to commemorate the victims begun by observing a minute of silence and lighting the Flame of Hope.

 Wreaths were also laid onto the monument of the Genocide on which the names of the victims are written in order to pay respect to them.

 In her speech, Julienne Uwacu, Executive Director in charge of Community Resilience at the Ministry of National Unity and Civic Engagement (MINUBUMWE), reiterated how colonizers turned the social classes that existed before their advent into ethnic lines.

She said that the regimes that took power after the independence continued in the same discriminatory line, which led to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

  In his testimonies, Pierre Celestin RUGAYAMPUNZI, son of Floride MUKAMPABUKA one of the   remembered victims who worked for MINITRASO, recalled the ordeals endured by their parents before they were brutally killed. 

 The vice president of IBUKA, umbrella of genocide survivors association,  Freddy MUTANGUHA  hailed the good leadership that the country enjoys today which is eager to solve the problems facing the survivors. He requested that more efforts be made in combating genocide ideology because it still manifests in different inhuman actions against the survivors.

The Minister of Local Government, Jean Marie Vianney GATABAZI who was the guest of honour, comforted those mourning their relatives who were victims of the Genocide.

He reminded that the fight against genocide ideology is a collective responsibility and called for everyone’s involvement to ensure that those nurturing it are arraigned to courts of laws.

Up to now, 25 victims have been identified including 8 former employees of MINIFOP, 10 former employees of MINITRASO and 7 former employees of the Ministry of the Interior and Communal Development.