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The governor Eastern Province Odette Uwamariya said that the main thing that can be done to help genocide survivors overcome trauma is helping them with their day to day problems.

The governor said this after confirmation from the mayor of Kayonza district John Mugabo on the 12/04/2013, of a very big deduction in the number of genocide survivors still with the problem, which gives hope that these people are overcoming the bad history the faced and now working to development.

“Though there is a reduction in trauma amongst the survivors, these people still move with such and this is the reason we have to help them with other problems especially in their homes”, said Uwamariya.

She added on saying that the government will continue helping the genocide survivors with their problems to help them overcome they trauma they live in.

She called them on not to stay with the memory of the bad history but instead to work hard and be able to develop.

The genocide survivors in Kayonza therefore thanked the government for all the efforts put in helping them overcome their problems.

“I would like to thank the government for increasing the number of genocide survivor students it supports in the different universities, for the houses constructed for many”, said Ignace Munyabuhoro the representative of the survivors in Kayonza.

She asked the different district leaders and the government to continue helping them promising to put all the government programmes organised for them into practice.

Guverineri w’intara y’uburasirazuba Uwamariya Odette asanga gukemura ibibazo by’ihungabana ku bacitse ku icumu rya Jenoside, ari ukubanza mbere na mbere kubafasha kuva mu bibazo barimo.

Umuyobozi w’akarere ka Kayonza Mugabo John tariki 12/04/2013 yavuze ko umubare w’abahungabana mu gihe cyo kwibuka ugenda ugabanuka ugereranyije no mu myaka yashize. Ibyo ngo bitanga icyizere cy’uko abarokotse Jenoside bagenda bagerageza kurenga amateka banyuzemo baharanira kwiteza imbere nk’uko yakomeje abivuga.

Guverineri w’uburasirazuba avuga ko n’ubwo bivugwa ko ibibazo by’ihungabana byagabanutse umuntu aba agendana na byo, ari na yo mpamvu avuga ko gukemura ibyo bibazo kwambere ari ugufasha uwarokotse kuva mu bibazo afite uyu munsi.

Agira ati “N’uwagufasha gute ntiyakugarurira umuvandimwe, inshuti yawe, umubyeyi wawe cyangwa umwana wawe. Ariko uko tugenda tuva mu bibazo tugenda tubona ubuzima bushoboka kuko ubusanzwe n’urupfu rubaho. N’ubu tugenda Atari Jenoside umuntu arapfa, kandi abizera Imana batubwira ko urupfu ariyo nzira itujyana mu ijuru”

Yongeyeho ko leta izakomeza kugira uruhare mu gufasha abarokotse Jenoside kuva mu bibazo barimo, anasaba abaturage kurushaho kwegera no gufasha abarokotse Jenoside.

Umuyobozi w’inta y’uburasirazuba asaba abarokotse kudaheranwa n’amateka ngo babure umwanya wo gukora ngo biteze imbere. Hamwe no kubabara no kwibuka abacu tugomba no gukora kugira ngo dutere imbere nk’uko yakomeje abivuga.

Yongeraho ko n’ubwo bigoye ko umuntu yibagirwa abe yabuze mu buryo bw’amaherere, atari na byiza guheranwa n’umubabaro ngo umuntu yibagirwe gukora.

Munyabuhoro Ignace uhagarariye abacitse ku icumu bo mu karere ka Kayonza, avuga ko leta igerageza gukora ibishoboka byose kugira ngo ibibazo by’abacitse ku icumu bibonerwe ibisubizo. By’umwihariko ashimira leta ko yongereye umubare w’abanyeshuri bacitse ku icumu yishyurira muri za kaminuza, akanavuga ko hari benshi bubakiwe kandi bakubakirwa amazu akomeye ugereranyije n’imyaka yashize.

Yasabye ubayobozi kuva ku rwego rw’akarere kugeza ku rwego rw’igihugu kurushaho kuzirikana abarokotse Jenoside, anavuga ko abacitse ku icumu batazatezuka na rimwe gushyira mu bikorwa gahunda za leta.

The 1994 genocide against Tutsis vulnerable survivors in Bugesera district decry lack of accommodation and they want the district administration to step in and help them get accommodation before the problem gets worse.

Louis Rwagaju the mayor of Bugesera district

This was discussed during the general assembly of Ibuka in Bugesera district that convened in Nyamata sector on the 3^rd.Jan.2013 when the coordinators of Ibuka in all sectors of Bugesera district presented the big problems affecting genocide survivors who are poor.

One of the big problems that are affecting the genocide survivors is lack of accommodation where some have none, others are in semi built houses and others got destroyed as John Rwikangura the coordinator of Ibuka in Bugesera district explained.

“in 2012, about 96 houses were built which were worth Rwf300 million and in 2013, about 70 houses will be built which will be worth Rwf270million and 54 houses will be remaining to be built plus 476 houses that need to renovated for the problem of accommodation among the needy genocide survivors to be completely solved.

As well as Ibuka, the Bugesera district administration is also concerned by this problem of lack of accommodation for the needy genocide survivors. The district has a plan of building accommodations for these genocide survivors through the district’s economic budget for the economic year 2012/2013 and this is already under the process though local people will participate through community work as Louis Rwagaju the mayor explained.

“In this year 2013, people with no accommodation will get where to stay in the 70 houses under construction, this will move along renovation of the destroyed houses and this is going to be done sooner” the mayor explained.

In this meeting, the problem of genocide survivors who were put in the class of people who are capable of supporting themselves according to Ubudehe social stratification was also discussed. These people were initially supported in FARG in paying for medical insurance need this issue to be reviewed as it is becoming difficult for them to pay for medical insurances.

The mayor advised people with this problem to talk to the committees of justice in the sectors to address their problems.