Niyuhire, Béatrice

Niyuhire, Béatrice

Béatrice Niyuhire

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Interviewee Age

Born in 1957

Interviewee Gender

Female

Interviewee Level of Education in 1972

I had reached the seventh grade but I only studied two terms because of the war.

Geographical Location(s) during the genocide

Mwaro province

Current Geographical Location

Ruziba Quarter, the commune is Muha, the province Bujumbura Mairie

Interview Date

2-17-2022

Interviewer Name

Yollande Niyubahwe

Summary of Oral History

In 1972 when the crisis began Beatrice lived at Isabu in Gisozi. At school, they started to see the Tutsi children standing in groups but they didn’t understand. They heard them saying the mulele rebels were at Rumonge after they said that Mulele arrived at Mugamba. They saw at school that the children of Tutsis began to scold them. Then there occurred a time when they said that the patrols had to take place to block the mulele so as not to reach the countryside. Tutsis who lived in Isabu were telephoned and asked if they had not begun, they were asking them if they hadn’t begun to kill hutus. Beatrice’s father told them that they would be killed any time, there was one person from Bujumbura who told them that if they had somewhere to flee to, they should flee because not Mulele were not targeted but hutus. On Sunday they began to take away people, they went to knock on the door of the home when they opened, they embarked them into the truck, they arrested men. So they took Beatrice’s father, they imprisoned him, when his family members went to see him after two weeks, they were told that he went to Muramvya to lie there, then they never saw him, he was killed. Beatrice also missed her brother in law. At that time Beatrice studied in seventh grade but she dropped out after studying two terms. Perpetrators who took away her father also took him with other eight men, and they were transported by the administrator named Ntarwarara Antoine. When they arrested them they told them that they went to justify themselves and that they would return back but they didn’t come back. There were other people who were sent by the administrator Ntarwarara to arrest hutus, like policemen. They killed them with bamboos and spears and they said that they were killing traitors. After killing them, they went to loot their things. They looted their clothes, all cows, and cows were taken by the administrator of Kayokwe commune. They looted their cupboards, chairs, and harvested their fields. Beatrice missed her uncles and her uncle’s sons, they missed seven members in their family. She also missed her brother in law. Her mother continuously fled to other countries, Rwanda, Congo,Tanzania, she suffered too much. Her life became very difficult since she missed her husband.

Beatrice ends by advising perpetrators that it is not good to hurt human beings like you, plundered items are not beneficial. According to her, Burundians should forgive one another in order to live peacefully. Youth should act and think about their future and not grow up following unimportant things they were told by their ancestors. What is good is to be committed to development.

Named Persons

Beatrice Niyuhire and her parents were Gahomera Anaclet and Bahuta Berthe. The siblings of Beatrice were Nahimana Jean Nepomuscene, Gahomera Deo, Nahimana Denis and Ndikumana Telesphore. Her grandparents were Karikera and Murasuka. Ntarwarara Antoine the administrator, the persons who picked up her father were Ntarwarara and Mukiriye, Ntankundire, Musisi. Negamiye Onesime the administrator. Wakana, Kashari and Francois, Nshimiye Thomas her uncles who were killed. Ndikumagenge her cousin killed, Kanonko her cousin, Gashari, Sabino her cousins. Ndizeye Charles the king. Bihizi Pierre someone Beatrice’s father helped on baptism.

Named Places

Ruziba hill, Muha commune, Bujumbura Mairie province.Gisozi the commune, Bisoro the commune. Mugera the seminary, Rwanda the country, Congo the country. Rumonge the province, Mugamba, Kayokwe the communes, Kibogoye the village, Musama, Kibumbu the villages, Bujumbura the capital of Burundi, Nyakabebe the village. Rwanda the country, Congo the country, Tanzanie the country

Length of Oral History

00:26:38

Language(s) of Oral History

Kirundi

Language(s) of Transcripts

Kirundi, English

Translator for Transcripts

Pasteur Niyomwungere

Field Folder Number

34

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