Paris administration has endorsed a decision to name a place from ’18th arrondissement’ after Aminadabu Birara, “a hero” of resistance on Bisesero hill”.
Paris council made this decision to pay Birara tribute “for having organised resistance [against killers] during the 1994 Genocide committed against Tutsi in Rwanda.”
For more than one month, Birara, thanks to his fighting strategy, he managed to work with the fellow Basesero to repulse killers who were trained, equipped and backed by local leaders of the area.
The Basesero were resistant until the intervention of then Prefet of Kibuye Clement Kayishema and his men who would massacre all the Tutsi in Bisesero including Birara who was killed by grenade, June 25, 1994 at age of 68.
Ibuka France said they are very thankful to the mayor of 18th arrondissement of Paris, and the city mayor Anne Hidalgo for such deeds.
