E/CN.4/1995/91
page 79
(h)
In the diocese of Gikongoro, Father Joseph Niyomuga and the
Abbés Irenee Nyamwasa (from Mbuga), Aloys Musoni (from Cyanika) and
Pierre Canisius Milinzi (from Mushubi) were killed;
(i)
In the parish of Marumba, three local priests were murdered
on 7 April;
(j)
At Gisenyi, Augustin Ntagara was murdered. In the parish of
Marumba, the village in which the late President Habyarimana was born,
near Gisenyi, three local priests were killed on 7 April;
(k)
In the diocese of Kibungo, in the church at Rukoma,
Abbé Evode Mwanangu and a large number of Christians were killed, at the
beginning of the disturbances, while they were praying. Other abbés were
also said to have died, namely, Justin Ruterandongozi, Michel Nsengiyum,
Jean Bosco Munyaneza, Joseph Gatare and Elisée Mpongano;
(l)
In the parish of Mushubi, Antoine Rugambarara, from the Main
Seminary, was murdered together with other Christians;
(m)
In the diocese of Cyangugu, the parish priest at Mibirizi was
killed in mid-May, together with Abbé Joseph Boneza;
(n)
At Gisagara, Abbé Jean-Marie Vianney Rwanyabuto was said to
have been killed;
(o)
At Kabgay, on 3 June 1994, Mgr. Thadolé Nsengiyumva,
Archbishop of Kigali; Mgr. Vincent Nsengiyumva, Bishop of Kabagazi and
President of the Episcopal Conference; Mgr. Joseph Rugindana, Bishop of
Byamba, and 10 priests (of whom 8 have been identified as Mgr. Jean-Marie
Vianney Rwabilinda, Vicar-General; Mgr. Innocent Gasabwaya, former
Vicar-General; Abbé Sylvestre Ndaberetse, Diocesan Bursar;
Abbé Bernard Ntamugabumwe, prefectoral representative of Catholic
teaching at Gitarama; Abbé Emmanuel Uwimana, Rector of the Small
Seminary; Abbé François Muligo, priest at the Cathedral;
Abbé Alfred Kayibanda, vicar at the Cathedral; and Abbé Fid Le Gahonzire,
almoner at Kabgayi Hospital) were killed."
The Special Rapporteur has also received information concerning massacres
committed in places of worship:
"(a) At Nyarubeye, thousands of Rwandans were massacred on
14 April on the premises of the local Catholic church, in the chapel, in
the prayer halls and in a convent;
(b)
At Rukara, in the Catholic parish of Karumbamba, about
2,000 persons who had taken refuge there were bludgeoned to death and
hacked to pieces. Eighty corpses were found in the church. The same
scene was repeated in three other churches in the region;