I just found out I’ll be leaving for Muyinga province Sunday for the first hearings of the Muyinga Massacre, which happened in 2006. I’m not totally sure on the background, but I believe they are summoning some government officials who executed around 50 people suspected of being FNL (the rebel group still present today in Burundi). I’ll be going with the head of APRODH and also with a Human Rights Watch woman around my age situated here in Bujo. She sounded American and when I asked her where she was from, she gave that familiar face I usually give people when they ask me. I told her I understood and was in the same boat. It’s nice to meet someone like myself for a change….
I’m excited for the travel, we’ll be headed northeast, towards Rwanda.