1994 Rwandan genocide testimony by Justin Karangwa

Justin Karangwa, a boy from Cellule Kinganto, Dusego Sector of Commune Mukingi in Gitarama Prefecture, provides names of leaders of the Interahamwe gang from Gitwe that attacked his neighborhood on April 23, 1994. They razed homes and looted property and livestock. The leader of the sector in which Justin lived ordered Hutu civilians to search for and kill Tutsis and that is when the killing intensified. These perpetrators were armed with machetes, spears, and clubs. Justin was arrested in his hideout and taken to the offices of Dusego Sector where other Tutsi from his neighborhood, including some of his family members had been killed. He was forced to witness 16 Tutsi killed and then he was attacked, slashed on the leg, and clubbed on the head. Still alive, he was into a pit with the dead bodies. Luckily a soldier came by and asked civilians to remove all the bodies from the pit. The soldier took those who were alive to a hospital at Byimana, but there wasn't any medicine at the hospital. Justin then tells that all Tutsis hiding in the area were rounded up and Mukingi's bourgumestre brought buses to take them to Kabgayi. Justin was hospitalized until the RPF liberated Kabgayi on June 2, 1994.