Gahimano, Joséphine
Summary of Oral History
Josephine Gahimano was born in Nyentaka, Nyagaseke village, Mabayi commune, Cibitoke province. She recounts that 1972 was the year of mass killing. During that year she was studying in fourth grade, she couldn’t continue school education and graduated, she dropped out because her father who supported them was killed. She had five siblings unfortunately they all have died: Ntegamaherezo, their youngest who was driver, he was shot very recently in Mugina, in Gisoko; Hakizimana who died of heart disease; Mama sirene who lived in Bujumbura, Bikorimana and Bigirimana..
Her father, Ngendandumwe Nasoni was a great merchant, he was killed at Bujumbura when he went to buy a car. Unfortunately, they missed both a car and a person. The tragedy broke out first at Bujumbura, when they heard that the war broke out in Bujumbura, took all items from the shop to home. The shop was full of merchandise. As their father had died, people started to come to rob things at home in Mabayi, so they ran away, their things were looted: bananas, and other goods. A lot of people in Mabayi perished, others fled to Rwanda, they came back after the tragedy. Prosper, Remy the elder who were teachers, and many others were taken to be killed in 1972.