Rwanda - Massacre victims buried

Описание: (21 Jan 1998) T/I: 11:05:52


The funerals were held on Wednesday (21/01) for brewery employees massacred in a Hutu rebel attack on a workers' bus on Monday (19/01).
The attack was blamed on members of Rwanda's former Hutu army and the extremist Interahamwe youth militia. Witnesses said the assailants ordered bus passengers to divide up on ethnic lines between members of the Hutu majority and of the Tutsi minority. When the workers refused, the attackers opened fire and then set the vehicle ablaze.
During the funerals soldiers from the Rwandan Patriotic Army patrolled the outskirts of Gisenyi on the lookout for insurgants.

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GISENYI RWANDA 21/01
Outskirts Gisenyi - RPA soldiers (Rwandan Patriotic Army) patrolling area;
vs of soldiers in field (gunfire audible);
Burnt hut;
Gisenyi hospital
WS 19 coffins of people killed in bus ambush on Sunday;
relatives crying;
coffins loaded onto truck;
Funeral procession;
soldiers walking alongside trucks with coffins;
trucks arriving at burial site on town outskirts;
woman in tears;
mourners singing;
gravediggers;
coffins carried to grave;
prayers said over coffins;
Mass grave of previous 94 victims;

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