Genocide prisoners request for public confession

The Mayor of Rwamagana District, Nehemiah Uwimana has said that people who are imprisoned due to genocide at Ntsinda prison in Rwamagana have asked to get an occasion to give own testimonies and confessions.

The mayor said while talking with prisoners last week, they told him that they regret of the terrible activities they have done during the genocide against the Tutsi.

“Prisoners asked me if during the commemoration period, they can be in commemoration plans so that they can give testimonies which could be useful,” he said.

This authority while giving conferences on different development plans in the prison of Ntsinda, has ask prisoners to accept the punishment and to correct themselves as well.

In this prison, they have a commemoration plan and they understand it, they remember and they have composed songs about genocide commemoration. These prisoners have the time to confess between each other and show out the truth that others have been hiding for a long time.

The mayor of the District has said that they specifically have plans for the prisoners to frame them according to the livelihood of the country so that after their punishment, they can go home well.

Gertrude Umurungi in charge of counselling in traumatism at Rwamagana says “we have realised that some people who participated in genocide are traumatized because of terrible things they have done.

Some of them are helped of confessing what they did and others are traumatized because their hearts tell them to confess.”

Ntsinda prison have almost 2,500 prisoners, most of them are jailed because of sins they did during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994.

Genocide prisoners request for public confession