Nsekerabandya, Cécile

Nsekerabandya, Cécile

Cécile Nsekerabandya

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Interviewee Age

Born in 1948

Interviewee Gender

Female

Interviewee Ethnicity

Hutu

Interviewee Level of Education in 1972

None

Geographical Location(s) during the genocide

Bujumbura, Giza

Current Geographical Location

Buhonga village, Kanyosha commune

Interview Date

12-18-2023

Interviewer Name

GHRAD Research Team Member

Summary of Oral History

Nsekerabandya Cecile was born in Buhonga about 1950. She did not get school education, she was married and they gave birth to eight children. In 1972, when the tragedy happened, she lived in Bwiza and she had given birth to the first child. At that time they started to hear armored military cars shooting and shooting; they asked what it was and they told them that the tragedy happened. They heard that they began to arrest intellectual people from their houses, they didn’t know where they took them to. Perpetrators were wearing military uniforms. They arrested people, took them away, killed them and threw them into pits.

Her brother who had studied until the sixth grade was killed during that tragedy, they killed him in Carama near where he lived. Cecile and her family fled, like other people during that tragedy, they fled to where they were put in tents. Her husband was Jean Berchmans Bibonimana. He died because of illness some days after the tragedy.

Cecile says that if they had known people who killed her brother, they would have forgiven them because what happened happened and  there was no other alternative.

Another thing Cecile proposes is that in Burundi, there should be a monument built for people killed in 1972. She also says that they tell the Burundian youth what happened, but even though they tell them those things, they should not be jealous because of that. Jealousy should be abolished and stopped in people’s hearts.

Named Persons

Nsekerabandya Cecile, Bibonimana Jean Berchmans: her husband, Ndadaye Melchior: Burundian president elected and killed in 1993 and he was hero of democracy

Named Places

Buhonga, Bwiza, Carama, Sororezo, Mutanga, Kinama, Muyira : zones in Bujumbura

Length of Oral History

00:42:30

Language(s) of Oral History

Kirundi

Language(s) of Transcripts

Kirundi, English

Translator for Transcripts

Pasteur Niyomwungere

Field Folder Number

121

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