Barantndikiye, Mathias

Barantndikiye, Mathias

Mathias Barantndikiye

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Interviewee Age

73

Interviewee Gender

Male

Interviewee Ethnicity

Hutu

Geographical Location(s) during the genocide

Gitega

Interview Date

2025

Summary of Oral History

Mathias Barantndikiye said he remembers a group of soldiers circling him and his fellow parishioners after he was walking home from Sunday mass. The soldiers forced them into a where a commander demanded everyone there take out documentation to prove they had all paid their taxes. However, Barantndikiye explained that no one traveled with their paperwork because it was Sunday, a day of rest. He said the militia began to release the men in large quantities. As they were released, Barantndikiye said he saw tractors digging large holes in their community. At first, he thought the digging might be a type of military exercise, only to discover later they were digging mass graves to bury those massacred in the 1972 Genocide of Burundi.

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Barantndikiye, Mathias

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