Nindamutsa, Jereturuda

Interviewee

Jereturuda Nindamutsa

Interviewee Age

76

Interviewee Gender

Female

Interviewee Ethnicity

Hutu

Interviewee Occupation

Farmer

Interviewee Level of Education in 1972

Third grade of elementary school

Geographical Location(s) during the genocide

Jenda village, Songa zone, commune Gitandu

Current Geographical Location

Gatete Rumonge commune and province.

Interview Date

4-22-2022

Interviewer Name

Nitunga Florence

Summary of Oral History

Jereturuda was 18 years old when she got married. After a year, she gave birth on Saturday April 29th, 1972 the same day the tragedy began. On that day people began to spread rumors that they heard muleles at Ndago hill and they began to run away. Jereturuda stayed in the house with a newborn baby in postpartum recovery. The next Thursday the perpetrators came home to arrest her husband. It was the last time to see her husband,  she didn’t mourn. Her parents in law comforted her and took care of her child. She raised her child for four years after she went to marry again. But she lost her second husband again in the tragedy. Unknown perpetrators took away her second husband because even after …72 they kept on rounding up Hutus one by one. In …72, they also killed her brother-in-law called Sylvere. To arrest him, they told him to go to the Manyoni zone to be interrogated. He went and did not come back. In that time, Hutus stayed together but they had a bad relationship with Tutsis. He lived a bad life and later on, she remarried a third time, she had other children. She was still sad at the time of the interview.

Named Persons

Severino Nyongera her father, Regina Ntikubitwa her mother. Ndikumana Alexandre, Wedisirasi Sindayihebura and Appolinaire Niyonkuru are her brothers. Mariya Goreti, her youngest sister, Inanganinka and Ntiringanizwa, her grandparents. Siriveri her brother in law, Zacharie Simbaruhije her husband, Athanase Barifiki

Named Places

Karagara Village, Rukoma the village, Bururi province, Rumeza the village, Matana the village, Ndago the village, Imbo, Bururi province, Rumonge province, Manyoni the village, Burundi the country.

Length of Oral History

01:14:21

Language(s) of Oral History

Kirundi

Language(s) of Transcripts

Kirundi, English

Translator for Transcripts

Pasteur Niyomwungere

Field Folder Number

28

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Recommended Citation

Nindamutsa, Jereturuda, "Nindamutsa, Jereturuda" (2022). 1972 Burundi Genocide – Oral Histories. 12.
https://neiudc.neiu.edu/burundi-oral-histories/12

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