Kangeyo, Marie Rose

Interviewee

Marie Rose Kangeyo

Interviewee Age

Born in 1947

Interviewee Gender

Female

Interviewee Level of Education in 1972

Stopped my studies in the fifth year of primary school

Geographical Location(s) during the genocide

Bwinyana village, commune Vumbi, Muyinga province

Current Geographical Location

Bwinyana village, commune Vumbi, Kirundo Province

Interview Date

2-16-2022

Interviewer Name

Philippe Mukamarakiza

Summary of Oral History

Marie Rose Kangeyo was born in 1947 in Bwinyana village, Vumbi commune, Kirundo province. She was married there, and became a widow there in Bitare, a place opposite to Rarwe. She got school education until fifth grade. Her father was Ntamugenzi Andreya, he was a diploma holder, he was an agricultural assistant. During the 1972 tragedy, Marie Rose Kangeyo lost many people: Her husband, her father, Michel Pfayokumpa, Mariko Kazirinikori, Rwobahirya, Pasikari, Saturumino and others.

According to Marie Rose Kangeyo, educated hutus were targeted even women, but also important people, merchants were mostly targeted. She witnessed the arrest of her husband and other hutus to be killed. Their graves are at Vumbi in an unknown place because they took them away and they never returned back. They recommended her husband to bring a report as he was chief, while he was enjoying his holidays, so they took him away and killed him. Some local leaders were involved in that tragedy, the administrator Mako, Gahima nicknamed Gasuravumbi, and others. That administrator also was involved in the arrest of her father, and they embarked him in his car which he had stationed at Gasivya. They killed them using small hoes, under the administrator’s order.

The money her husband had saved in saving account was not recuperated by his family because he had gone with all diploma documents. They even looted the land his husband had bought at Kabuye in Kiremba. They also looted banana crops they had. Misogoro was a man who brought thieves to steal Marie Rose’s things because she refused to marry him as his second wife after her husband’s death. After the death of her husband, she was traumatized, she was constrained to return back to her mother’s home. Thieves always troubled her, trying to break through the window, because she was a widow. She alertly cried out with her few children with whom they lived together, but they lacked someone to come in help. So, her mother came and took them out of there. Her children didn’t continue school education, no one of them graduated, they survived in a very sorrowful life.

Named Persons

Her father: Ntamugenzi Andereya, Her mother: Ntibateganya Ririyana, Her husband: Hatungimana Andereya, Misigaro: a man who ran a shop, he was killed with his father

Named Places

Bwinyana: village, Vumbi, Marangara: Communes, Ngozi : province, Bitare, Rarwe : Hills

Length of Oral History

01:13:48

Language(s) of Oral History

Kirundi

Language(s) of Transcripts

Kirundi, English

Translator for Transcripts

Pasteur Niyomwungere

Field Folder Number

29

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Recommended Citation

Kangeyo, Marie Rose, "Kangeyo, Marie Rose" (2022). 1972 Burundi Genocide – Oral Histories. 102.
https://neiudc.neiu.edu/burundi-oral-histories/102

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