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Patriotism

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by Patricia Bamurangirwa

Let me first go on top of hills in Kigali

  I will be monitoring them without knowledge

  Because of the expertise I shall have

  They will suspect me according to the number I will give them

  I will not fear complicated areas

  I will spy and prepare a proper route

  With patience and sacrifice

  We shall lead our people to their homeland.

  Liberation Launch I support it.

  Mbandahe Mbayire Alfonse received the news

  We in Rwanda in secret way

  This Launch was all along awaited

  Many years have passed when we are called cockroach

  Come on and we will leave these gluttons

  We shall be given deserving victorious names

  We shall lead you in proper routes

  Those in swamps and bushes

  We shall crash the enemies and overcome them

  Liberation Launch we support it.

  The little boys, we have heard

  You will not leave us behind even if you hider us

  We shall follow you without your knowledge

  When you will see us it will be too late

  You cannot stop us, and then let us go to battle.

  We will disguise ourselves among other children

  And we shall have a great purpose,

  To your surprise we will become heroes.

  Liberation Launch we support it.

  Students left their pens on desks

  Those in Northern Uganda turned back and withdrew

  Doctors left their overcoats in treatment rooms

  Teachers gave themselves holidays

  Some women were discharged

  Children agreed that whether you like it or not

  The time is up, they told their parents

  Whether rain or shine we have gone

  Don’t be surprised, the time is now.

  Get together; pray for us, we have gone to battle

  So that we can take you back home.

  Warriors or rebels liberated Rwanda in 1990, the group crossed the border on 1-10-1990. Many of them came from different countries from the entire world, they provided different expertise. Those who returned from their refugee have also joined, they are those who sacrificed their lives, they are girls and boys, and we shall always keep them in our hearts.

  Boys and girls, I did not mention all names, but the few names mentioned stand for others who have not been mentioned.

  Our warriors will never be forgotten because they are the source of present Rwanda. We should not forget their parents, relatives and friends who supported them by contributing financially, their time, and providing various items which included among others; food, animals, when the last was physically got arms support the liberation struggle.

  All these people should be recognised and thanked. This keeps us walking with our heads high and proud to be a Rwandans.

  HUMURA SINAGUTANZE

  Umwera atungutse iwacu yasanze ishyaka literwa nubumwe, asanga abantu alimbaga yinyabutatu atahamburwa nibihita, asanga basengera hamwe bagashyingirana bagahana igihango ngo badode ubwobumwe, bagatabalira hamwe Urwanda rukaba Rutinwya, bizwi ko rudaterwa ahubwo rutabazwa.

  Umwera asanga ubwo bumwe buzabangamira

  ubuhashyi bwamuhagurukije, ati: aliko nitwaje ikaramu nifaranga ndetse nimbunda na Bibilia.

  Aduha itegeko ryokumuphukamira tugasengera mumateka yemereramo, ati: ndetse ntimugashyingirane muhujwe nubwo bumwe bwanyu, ahubwo mujje mushyingirana aruko muhuliye mumadini yacu.

  Icyo nicyo cyingenzi cyahuzaga imiryango, ubwo amacakubiri atangira kuduseseramo atryo, ati ahubwo ndanababara mbihere ubwoko uko mbishyaka, ariko ndengere icyampagurukije.

  Intwari Bisangwa wa Rugombituli azira iryo shyaka, azira ubwo bumwe, kuko basanze batazashobora kumukoresha kucengezamo abahutu benewabo amacakubili.

  Rukara rwa Bishingwe azira iryo shyaka azira ubwo bumwe kuko yanze agasuzuguro ko gutekererezwa.

  Umwami Musinga acirwa ishyanga kuko yanze gutanga Urwanda kubwende, ati kirazira

  Bakoresha ijambo ubwoko natwe turemera, twibagirwa umurage wabakurambere badusigiye, twibagirwa nurugero batweretse rulimo nurwa Rwabugili mubagore yarafite halimo umutwakazi bitaga Nturo yali yarubakiye kuku Busanza ka Runda

  1959 Mutara aciye ubuhake niho ibintu mu Rwanda byatangiye gucika.

  Rukabu amaze kubizira inkongi ikwira Urwanda Ibitambambuga bijugunwa mumiliro ngo nibajje kuzimya ingo zabo.

  Kuba Umuhutu bihabwa intebe, kuba Umututsi bitera isoni Amazuru abura ahahishywa, igice kimwe cyabanyarwanda cyamburwa ubuntu girtyo.

  Bati bariya ninzoka sabantu

  Ndetse bamwe mubabuze aho bahisha amazuru bakwira amahanga, hashize kabili bati ni Nyenzi baragahera ishyanga. Imbuto Ntutsi abali Murwagasabo nabali hanze babura amahoro, aliko bati bucyana ayandi.

  Abali mu Rwanda kubona ishuli nimilimo ukagura Ubuhutu, cyanga hagahagararwa nabakobwa kubera ubwiza bahawe n’Imana, nuburere bahawe nababyeyi.

  Igihe kiragera, hasohoka itegeko bati umutoni wa Leta kibe umuziro kurongora abatutsikazi, kuko sabo kwilingira, sabo kwiyegereza nimbuto ntindi.

  Ahubwo tugiye kuvugurura imigambi yacu, tubatsembe burundu, abazavuka nyuma bazabaze icyumututsi yalicyo, bitali byabindi byaphubye kenchi ntibiduhire.

  Kinani yongeye kurahira ngo abagiye bahere ishyanga. Ati Urwanda nirutoya ntimwahakirwa, ninkikirahure cyuzuye amazi.

  Abana bati reka reka Kinani ducyure ababyeyi, kuko kuneza kunabi turaza.

  Kinani ati numureke baze byibura imigambi yarateguwe.

  Bazaze baramutswe nibiti namabuye ababo twabatsembye.

  Imambo zaratumiwe, imihoro iraza izabacagagura, amahili udufuni nudushoka birategurwa. Imyobo kabuhaliwe nimisarane ntibyibagiranye, bati nuwo tutazica azapha ahagaze, tuzamusige azaphe yumva azaphe nabi tukimureba.

  Imilimo yarateguwe igihe kiragera

  Barambara batangira ibyo bitaga akazi.

  Uwo bahuye nawe bakareba ishusho.

  Bati nturengaha ufite izuru nimisaya uruwogupha

  Bati ntiwilirwe utakamba yamana yanyu yabatanze

  Inzirakarengane baranze bakomeza kwizera iyo Mana basebeje.

  Barebye amashusho bica nababo

  Ukuyeho ko nabyo byali muligahunda

  Byarateganirijwe italiki yabyo

  Kuwaliwe wese wanduye amaraso ya Gatutsi

  Aruwo kuzapha.

  Bishe abantu muburyo bwinchi butavugika.

  Bishe ababigenewe nabahutu bindahemuka barugenderamo.

  Bashinze imambo mubali

  Bazilika ababyeyi kubiti babakorera ibyamfurambi

  Abakobwa beza bamatako meza ateye imbabazi barababaza

  Abandi barabamba ngo niko Yezu yategetse.

  Abishe bavuye munzego zose ningano zose.

  Abasore ninkumi, abasaza nabacyecuru

  Ndetse nibitambambuga byatese bitema.

  Byagoye abagenewe gupha

  Bayoberwa uwo bahungiraho

  Bagumya kwizera yamana yabo basebeje.

  Basatuye amada yababyeyi

  ngo barebe uko abana babatutsi baryamye.

  Mumatryazo ya Butare umugore Tamasha yaciye abandi bagore amabere

  Ayo aramabere yonkeje imfura.

  Aliko izonzira karengane bakomeye kuliyo Mana yasebejwe

  Bajugunya abantu mubyobo kabuhaliwe alibazima.

  Ibitambambuga bati nimube muretse turatokorwa.

  Abandi bati nimutureka none ntituzongera kuba abatutsi

  Bati Imana yanyu yabatanze nimuphe.

  Bajugunwe mumisarane nomumigezi

  ahatembaga amazi hatemba amaraso

  Muzabaze Muhazi na Nyabarongo

  Muzabaze Victolia aho amasamake yahagaritswe kurobwa

  Muzabaze abagande baroba abana

  batunze kubiti nka mushikake.

  Aho mumazi banyuzwaga ngo niyubusamo.

  Abadafite amafaranga yokugura isasu ryokubarasa

  Bagacocagurwa

  Babasaba kubica ngo baveho bati aliko ibyanyu byo
se mushaka ibyiza?

  nogupha nabyo ra! Noneho nimuphe nabi.

  Baratemaguwe baracocagurwa

  Ndetse udatatse ngo atakambe bakabimwibutsa.

  Abagore bishe abana babo bonkeje

  kuko bibutse ko bababyaye kumbuto mbi

  Abandi bica abishwa cyanga abobashakanye.

  Abahandi bati amashitani yisi yose yimukiye mu Rwanda.

  Basanga icyabatabara aruguhungira mubilizia,

  Bilingiye Leta yi Iroma kuko arabayoboke

  Bati abamakanzu nibitambaro baragira impuhwe.

  Aliko barahageze bati murakaza mboga zizanye.

  Ibiliziya babibalimbuliraho ngo kubatsemba biborohere

  Ibindi bahamagalizwa inkora maraso bati baragwiliye.

  Dore ko bali bateguye kubashyirahamwe

  Kuko ngo nutwika imbagara abanza akazejjeranya

  Inzirakarengane ntibatezutse kuli yamana basebeje.

  Naje guhura naya Mana nkubita amavi hasi ndayibaza

  Ntese Mana muremyi nkubaze,nikoko burya abange warabatanze?

  Imana mijwi linini cyane lihindira

  Ryahinze kwisi hose igahungabana

  Yarambwiye iti humura mwana wange sinabatanze.

  Iyo mbatanga ntanumwe uba warasanze.

  Iti inkoramaraso baribeshye barababeshya

  Sinabatanze sinabatanga kwikora munda.

  Iti burya nijje washyize umujinya wubutwali Muzamarere

  Bakizilika imyenda munda nkababyaye

  Ngobayihekeshe imbabare zange aho bazisanze

  Uwabo umwe warabibonye ngo arashorera abangomeye ibihumbi.

  Ubwo imyotsi yabacumbaga kumitwe bayitekeyeho umugenda.

  Izamarere batanguranwa nasakabaka nimbwa bibalira ababo.

  Babatora ahobali, bahumeka badahumeka

  Babatera imugongo babasubiza ibumuntu.

  Warabibonye babahashya Ikibeho

  aho bali bubikiliye ngobagaruke ntibanyuzwe

  Nibidaterurwa bya Abafaranca kuko batashize uko bashaka.

  Izamarere nijje wabashyizemo ubwo bwema mwana wange.

  Burya igihe cyange cyali cyigeze

  cyokwiyegereza abange intore zange.

  Kandi mbasigiye inchungu nahaye ubutwali numurava.

  Naho imbuto Ntutsi nayihanze kubwende, kandi nyihanga nyikunze.

  Abiyemeje kunkora mujisho nabavumye nk, Imana

  Ngo bazaphe umugenda banyure kuli Goma bagere Tingitingi.

  Kandi iteka aho bazaba bari hose ijisho ryange ryigishilira bajje baryikanga

  Aliko icyombabujije nuguhora

  Ibyo nibyange birandeba

  Numushyigikire ubumwe nabaraze gakondo

  Muzababarire ariko ntimuzibagirwe

  Ahubwo reka nkugire intumwa yange, uzabitangalize abandi

  Ko ubu nahinduye gahunda.

  Sinkilirwa ahandi ngo ntahe i Rwanda bwije.

  Urwagasabo nahagize IJABIRO ryange.

  Niho mba amasaha makumyabili nane, ahandi hirya hino hose kwisi

  Nkahalindisha UBUKAKA BWANGE

  Humura Rwanda humura bana bange sinabatanze.

  DON’T BE FEARFUL,I DIDN’T GIVE UP TO YOU

  Once colonials emerge in our motherland he discovers the unity of toughness among people

  Society of trinity who are never divided by anything and worship together

  We exchange intermarriage among us, we exchange life reliance among us in order to build on that rock-solid unity

  He recognises we hold up each other and protect and attack as one Rwanda is treasured

  Rwanda attacks not attacked; instead Rwanda interferes where it requires peace

  The imposing discover the unity will contest their own interest to convey him here

  He says: I’m confident. I come with pens, money, with guns plus bibles as well

  He ordered us to our knees for him play and believes in his own faith

  Furthermore he opposed us to marry each other to break the value of our unity

  That was most important to unity, family-division started to be inserted in our culture

  He started to count us and created ethnics like he wanted to divide us in order to guard his interest

  He counted wealth and gave us ethnic as he planned, he inherited the curse

  Hero Bisangwa WA Rugombituli, paid a big price of his life for his courage and unity and his country

  The colonials realise they won’t able to use him to mobilise his Hutu ethnic hatred division

  Rukara rwa Bishingwe pay a big price of his life because he refuses the arrogance and slavery.

  King Musinga became their No 1 enemy because he refused just to give up Rwanda easily; he says it is a curse in Rwandan tradition to surrender Rwanda. Instead you give your life defending Rwanda

  They used ethnicity and we agreed, we forget our inheritance of our ancestors

  We forget our good examples of our predecessor including King Rwabugiri.

  Who has had Twa ethnic named Nturo as one of his wives?

  In 1959 King Mutara abolished slavery in Rwanda and things started to look bad

  Rukabu, after paying price, the flame of fire spread through all Rwanda

  The toddlers’ thoroughness out in the fire intentionally saying they use them to take out fire of their own parents

  Being Hutu become superior and being Tutsi become a disgrace

  There is no way you can hide your nose, one party of Rwandan people stripped their own humanity.

  They says Tutsi are snakes, they’re not human

  Some fled Rwanda into overseas countries and they changed language Instead of being snakes they said they’re cockroaches and we don’t want them back in Rwanda forever.

  Tutsi inside the country were harassed, discriminated against, even killed slowly

  Tutsi in foreign countries were able to integrate and they changed their own name to get a school and win with higher marks.

  The ones who stayed in Rwanda to find a school and work become tough, some they have to buy Hutu ethnicity.

  The time arrive the policy declare no Hutu in administration or military allowed to get married to the Tutsi women because we can’t trust them, we don’t want them amongst us, they’re horrific people.

  Instead we desire to chase them out of our country and wipe them until our new generation will ask in future what Tutsi looked like

  Kinani, former Rwanda President insist Rwanda is too small, there is no place for Tutsi, it is like glass full of water if you add one drop of water some water will be squandered

  Rwandan in outside asked for dialogue saying Rwanda is our home too and is where our heart is, we want to come back with our parents in peaceful way or fighting for our right.

  Kinani, former Rwanda President says ok let them come, our plan is ready, they will welcomed with sticks and stones after the massacre of their own relatives in this country, the machetes are ready delivered, guns, grenades, etc…

  They set up the training camp to train how to kill Tutsi as job training, as they say when they finish the killing, we finish our job

  They mobilised to butcher the Tutsi and Hutu moderates, who opposed slaughter and would not help to kill

  They say we’re ready, waiting to pull a trigger and start to chop them, rape the women, burn them alive, wipe them off face of the earth

  Time comes, get ready and start work, and they set up road blocks all over the country checking identity. Even physical appearance can get you killed, they say. Don’t even beg for mercy, even your god deserted you but the victims resist to lost faith in god.

  By checking physical appearance they killed even their own ethnicity, even if it was planned to kill everybody who has mixed blood with Tutsi after wiping out all pure Tutsis.

  They killed Tutsi in many ways you can never imagine,

  They killed Tutsis, even moderate Hutu who try to hide Tutsi

  They raped the women, young or old, even grandmothers

  The beautiful young girls raped and some have been crucified on the cross

&
nbsp; The killers come from all ages, genders and all areas

  Young men and girls, old men and women, even teenagers

  It was very hard for Tutsi, there was no way for refuge, and they had been hunted like animals

  They had been ambushed all over; they were just waiting to die wherever you go

  They have no where to go, everwhere killing was on, everwhere it was devil work

  But they never lost hope and belief in god.

  They cut the pregnant women to see what a Tutsi foetus looks like

  In Matyazo of Butare District one woman was called TAMASHA, reaper of other women’s breasts

  The breast who fed another human being, good people

  They threw people in big holes which were made for that reason, toilets and lakes when they were still alive!

  The area of flood water became flood of blood

  Muhazi and Nyabarongo rivers turned into baths of blood

  Fish from Victoria Lake stopped being eaten

  The fishermen from Uganda, instead of catching fish, they caught toddlers’ bodies in the lake

  They threw them in the lake as a shortcut to return them where they say they come from

  The person who doesn’t have money to buy bullets to be used to kill him

  They have been butchered like dead meat

  They’ve begged to be killed with bullets and the response was no because always Tutsi want the best

  Even deaths! No you have to suffer even in dying

  They’ve been hacked to death, even make them suffer much

  The women killed their own children saying having them with Tutsi is a curse

  Others killed their own wifes, relatives; just simply because they’re mixed with Tutsi blood

  People think Rwanda is full of demons

  They think shelter in churches is the only way away from demons

  Hoping fathers and sisters are full of grace

  Instead they welcome them with no help and called the killer to kill them

  They destroyed churches on top of them

  They even organised to put them together

  Because they say if you want to burn wood you put them together

  The victims never lost the faith in god

  I meet god and fall on my knee and ask

  My god creator of everything, is it true you have given up my people

  God reply to me in loudest sound and powerfully to shake the world

  He says: No don’t be fearful my child, I don’t give up on you

 

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