October
Hutu Genocide Commemoration Month
October 2022
Join us in our commemoration activities:
We commemorate and honor the victims of Hutu Genocide crime
Hutu Genocide Commemoration Month is the time for the survivors and witnesses of the Hutu genocide to give their testimonies and to let the nation and the rest of the world know what really happened to theirs.
We ask for the recognition of the genocide against the Hutu people
This is an opportunity to campaign for the recognition of this genocide by the competent institutions and to seek justice against the perpetrators of these acts.
We advocate for survivors living in conflict zones
October is an opportunity to assist and advocate for the survivors of these crimes who still find themselves in conflict zone
Throughout the 1990s conflict in the African Lake District, there were several significant dates and months in which major Hutu massacres took place. If one must choose a month as the month of commemoration for the victims of the genocide against the Hutu people, October stands out:
October 1990 - Beginning of hostilities
October 1, 1990, was the beginning of hostilities. The massacres which followed the October 1990 attack of the RPF-Inkotanyi marked the beginning of the first phase of the genocide against the Hutu people with the killing and the suffering of Hutu peasants in the north of Rwanda.
October 1996 - Phase 2 of the Hutu genocide
October 20, 1996 marked the beginning of the second phase of the genocide against the Hutu people, when the RPF and AFDL launched a major attack in North Kivu and South Kivu in the DRC:
– 20 October 1996, systematic attacks on the 11 Hutu refugee camps in the territory of Uvira.
– 20 October 1996, RPF troops destroyed 26 “Bukavu camps” in Walungu, Kabare and Kalehe.
– 25 October 1996, systematic attacks on the five refugee camps in North Kivu, from Goma to Rutshuru.
October 1997 - Bombing of the Nyakinama caves
October 1997 was an intense period of massacres, particularly in the prefectures of Gisenyi and Ruhengeri. From 23 to 28 October 1997, some 8,000 Hutu civilians were killed by RPA soldiers in large caves in Nyakimana, Kanama commune, in Gisenyi prefecture.
October 2010 - DRC mapping exercise report
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published the report mapping of the most serious human rights and international humanitarian law violations committed in the DRC between 1993-2003, in which its team concluded that certain elements indicated that a genocide had been committed.
