On February 17, 2020, police announced that Kizito Mihigo, a popular Rwandan singer and genocide survivor, had been killed in his cell at a Kigali police station. Today, fellow genocide survivors and members of Igicumbi, the only independent survivor organization, mourn his death.
They remember him and hundreds of other survivors who lived through the 1994 genocide by Hutu extremists, only to later perish under suspicious circumstances. Their deaths raise concerns about ongoing human rights violations in Rwanda, despite the current regime presenting itself as the savior that stopped the genocide.
There is a tragic irony in survivors falling victim to unexplained violence under this government. More transparency and accountability are needed regarding these deaths, which seem to further the objectives of the original perpetrators who sought to eliminate Tutsis. Ends
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