Ndikumana, Daforoza

Ndikumana, Daforoza

Daforoza Ndikumana

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Interviewee Age

Was born under the rule of Rwagasore, a son of a king killed in 1961

Interviewee Gender

Female

Interviewee Level of Education in 1972

no schooling

Geographical Location(s) during the genocide

Kizuka Village, the commune was Rumonge, Bururi province

Current Geographical Location

Kizuka Village, Rumonge commune, Bururi provinc

Interview Date

4-22-2022

Interviewer Name

Florence Nitunga

Summary of Oral History

Daforoza Ndikumana was born under the rule of Rwagasore, a son of a king killed in 1961. Daforoza was born in Manyoni zone, in Kato near Ruvumvu, in Songa commune, Bururi province but she was interviewed when she lived in Rumonge province. She didn’t get school education because parents who would support her in school education perished in the 1972 war, she was still very young. She was born in a very large family; she had five paternal uncles, and her father. In 1972, they called their fathers to go to patrol, they arrested them there but they released them after some days.

When returning back home her father hid himself in the pit used to ripen bananas. They came to arrest him for the second time so they embarked him and others in the dumb truck, they packed them one over another in supine, they transported them to Bururi and they dumped them into pits. They never saw them again. During that period they killed a lot of people, among them were people who were at Rumonge to earn money; they put them in bags and dumped them into the river. Perpetrators came with spears, they told them that they went to the patrol to guard against the traitors and said that they were coming from Rumonge. While walking on the street, people saw them stuck in trucks, transported away, they never returned back until now.

Daforoza’s family was left in desolation, they were mistreated and helpless. After killing her father, they plundered all things that would help her mother to raise them as orphans: all thirty cows they had, goats, chickens. Her siblings had started school but they couldn’t continue because life became very hard. They lived in misery even though they had a good life before her father’s death. They couldn’t say anything, their families were massacred once in 1972. They were obliged to work for minimum wage in order to survive. Tutsis gave them a little bit of money, so they grew up with difficulty and they got married.

In their neighborhood, there was also a great depression, they couldn’t complain to one another, they were taking away their neighbors’ relatives, husbands, and boys of fifteen or twelve years old, not even a single boy was left in their province.

Named Persons

Bambonyurugo: her father, Sindabatohana: her mother, Kanyaru and Kayoya and Matthias: some of her ten siblings, Zirakunze Severin: her paternal grandfather, Ntamyifato Colette: her paternal grandmother

Named Places

Manyoni, Ruvumvu, Rumeza, Taba: villages ; Rumonge : province and Commune

Length of Oral History

00:19:15

Language(s) of Oral History

Kirundi

Language(s) of Transcripts

Kirundi, English

Translator for Transcripts

Translator (for transcripts) Pasteur Niyomwungere, Transcriptionist: — Sylvane Ndihokubwayo

Field Folder Number

30

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