Miburo, Sylvie

Miburo, Sylvie

Sylvie Miburo

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Interviewee Age

Born in 1940

Interviewee Gender

Female

Geographical Location(s) during the genocide

Murore village, commune Murore, Muyinga province

Current Geographical Location

Murore village, commune Busoni, Kirundo Province

Interview Date

2-19-2022

Interviewer Name

Philippe Mukamarakiza

Summary of Oral History

Sylvie Miburo was born in 1940 in Murore village, Busoni commune, Kirundo province. When the 1972 tragedy broke out she had three or four children, her husband was killed in that tragedy. She described the bad circumstances they went through during that period. They saw people coming, they rounded up hutus, they packed them in trucks and took them away. They thought they would come back, they waited but they never returned back. Perpetrators (Tutsis) accused them of collecting money to kill tutsis. That was jealousy and pretext to kill them because they saw that they were succeeding in their works of farming and so on.

They arrested her husband on the day of community work, when people met together to work for a certain person, on that same day they took many people of the same circumscription. When they arrived at Rusarasi, they took a teacher named Bidodwa Lazarre, they also took Bikere, his co-worker in Gatare, they took Bizuru in Makombe, they took Bidadi who was a teacher, Ntanyurwa’s son. On that day they rounded up six people in that neighbourhood. They packed them in military trucks, and sat on them when transporting them away to kill them.

Some local leaders were involved in that massacre, she gave the example of Nzogera, the administrator during that period, but also there were some other people mostly involved in that massacre as Biteyigihanga and Nzirikana.

Named Persons

Semakamba Severein: her husband, Nzirikana: local leader who led people who took away her husband, Nzogera: administrator of Busoni commune in 1972, Biteyigihanga: someone who was with Nzirikana to take away her husband, Mbonanya: her father, Inabapfumu: her mother, Sigigi, Bihege: her grandfather, Nyagakumi: grandmother, Rwantambara: Commissioner who led to go to clear forest at Murehe in 1973, Ntambara: Local leader who urged people to go to clear forest at Murehe after the 1972 tragedy, Nzogera: the administrator who was involved in killing Hutus.

Named Places

Murore, Rutambwe, Rurira: where she was born, Busoni: commune, Murore: zone, Rusarasi: where Nzirikana lived, Buyenga: where they may have thrown Hutus taken away

Length of Oral History

00:34:16

Language(s) of Oral History

Kirundi

Language(s) of Transcripts

Kirundi, English

Translator for Transcripts

Pasteur Niyomwungere

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