Mass Graves Force Burundi to Confront Its Violent Past
Truth and Reconciliation Commission leads exhumation exercise that critics question before a presidential election in May
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Generose Banyankindagiye gazed at the picture of her late husband on the wall of her spartan brick house and remembered the last time she saw him almost 50 years ago.
She decided to hang up the picture after Burundi’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission started exhuming the bodies of victims of several waves of political and ethnic violence since independence from Belgium in 1962. She thought it could help find her husband by recognizing his clothes. And then she might finally be able to mourn him.