Dozens taken prisoner after the 1973 Rwanda coup were taken from Kigali, the capital, to prisons in Gisenyi and Ruhengeri. At the time of her arrest in early July 1973, Kabarenzi was a 24-year-old social worker in Kigali’s Centre Hospitalier. … I didn’t know that she lived in hell for another three years after my birth,” Uwimana told VOA in a phone interview. “I grew up knowing that Christine is my elder sister, and I still believe so,” Bernadette Tuyishime told VOA on the program. Godefroid Nyiribakwe, shown in an undated image, was a Rwandan labor ministry official arrested in a 1973 coup.

Source: Ethiopian News February 14, 2021 00:11 UTC