RWANDA
The New Times
By: STEVEN MUVUNYI
PUBLISHED: June 27, 2016
Genocide survivors and relatives of victims have expressed dismay at a decision by Catholic Church to celebrate silver jubilee in honour of two priests convicted for their role in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
Emmanuel Rukundo and Joseph Ndagijimana are among six priests whose ordination and jubilee ceremony is slated to take place on July 16 at Kabgayi Diocese.
Emmanuel Rukundo was convicted and handed a 25-year sentence by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 2009, while Joseph Ndagijimana was convicted and handed life sentence by Gacaca in the same year.
Ndagijimana is serving his sentence in Mpanga Prison in Ruhango District.
Speaking to The New Times yesterday, Prof. Jean-Pierre Dusingizemungu, the president of Ibuka, an umbrella of Genocide survivors associations, strongly condemned the celebration of the jubilee and called it a form of negation as well as provocation.
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