The remains of some 50,000 victims of the 1994 genocide are to be buried in a mass grave at a Kigali memorial site on 7 April, Rwanda News Agency (RNA) reported on Wednesday. So far, over 14,000 remains had been unearthed from Nyamirambo and 5,800 from Biryogo suburbs for reburial, it quoted Nyarugenge commune leader Augustine Kampayana as saying. Sixty eight million Rwandan francs has been put aside to cover the cost of the reburial in Nyarugenge commune of Kigali Urban, Kampayana said. The government also intends to establish genocide memorial sites in 150 of the 151 communes in the country, RNA stated. Giti commune in Byumba prefecture, northern Rwanda, was the exception having never had participated in the slaughter, it added.
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