Karibwami, Louis

Karibwami, Louis

Louis Karibwami

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Interviewee Age

Born in 1970

Interviewee Gender

Male

Geographical Location(s) during the genocide

Rutegama quarter, Gitega commune and province

Current Geographical Location

Rutegama quarter, Gitega commune and province

Interview Date

12-15-2023

Interviewer Name

Member of the GHRAD research team

Summary of Oral History

Karibwami Louis was born in 1970, in Gitega commune and province, in Rutegama village. During the 1972 tragedy, his father was killed. After his father’s death they lived in very bad circumstances of poverty, as her mother was jobless. His father was a soldier, it was during the morning; he went to work but his family had already heard that there were killings which were being done all over the country. His family lived in a military camp and there was no way, no possibility to escape.

When they lost they lost his father, it was as if their lives stopped. His mother didn’t know perpetrators, because there were teams appointed just for coming and took away them to kill them in mass graves. They realized that it was the government’s plan at that time.  No one could see the body; you couldn’t even go to ask, if you went to ask, you could also be killed. They didn’t even find bodies of killed people.

They were badly affected, that is why they would like to stop it, because it was a hard tragedy and many people lost their lives. Hutus were targeted in that tragedy.What they ask is that they should be given back their properties and things plundered; a lot of people were plundered with all their things, so they should be compensated.

The advice he gives is that Burundians in general, and youth in particular, should fight against divisions and work hard to make development.

Named Places

Gitega: province, commune. Rutegama: quarter

Length of Oral History

00:26:12

Language(s) of Oral History

Kirundi

Language(s) of Transcripts

Kirundi, English

Translator for Transcripts

Pasteur Niyomwungere

Field Folder Number

158

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