Kandava, Riberata

Kandava, Riberata

Riberata Kandava

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Interviewee Age

61

Interviewee Gender

Female

Interviewee Ethnicity

Hutu

Interviewee Level of Education in 1972

1st grade to one year of catechetical school

Geographical Location(s) during the genocide

Burundi, Ruyaga village, Busoni zone, Kirundo Arrondissement, Muyinga province

Current Geographical Location

Burundi, Ruyaga Village, Busoni commune, Kirundo province

Interview Date

2-26-2022

Interviewer Name

Philippe Mukamarakiza

Summary of Oral History

Riberata Kandava shares how she studied till the first grade and after one year, studied at catechetical school. However, she stopped attending school, because her mother viewed it as a risk, after her father was captured. Riberata narrates how armed individuals came to her home, arrested her father who was a merchant, and subsequently killed him. The perpetrators looted her family's belongings, taking away a bicycle and a radio, and later returned to take whatever remained in the house. The family was left in appalling circumstances, constantly harassed by local authorities who accused them of being traitors. The term "traitor" was unclear to the speaker as a child, but it was used as a derogatory term against those who were targeted. The interviewee also mentions an alarming practice where some perpetrators would return to marry the widows of the victims they had killed. The speaker's mother, a young and attractive widow, became a target of such advances, which intensified their hardships. The family lived in fear and poverty, struggling to survive amid ongoing harassment, as well as threats from local authorities.

Overall, the interview paints a vivid picture of the brutal consequences of political violence and how it profoundly affected the lives of innocent civilians in Kandava during that period.

Named Persons

Burahimu Burakobeje(father), Régine Inabititaweho (mother), Ngowe (name of grandparents), Bizarwe (the authority who captured her father)

Named Places

Ruyaga Village, the commune is Busoni, the province Kirundo

Length of Oral History

00:20:21

Language(s) of Oral History

Kirundi

Language(s) of Transcripts

Kirundi, English

Translator for Transcripts

Pasteur Niyomwungere and transcriptionist Sylvane Ndihokubwayo

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