Kiremba

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'''Kiremba''' is a small town in the Commune of Bururi in Bururi Province in southern Burundi. By road it is located 7 kilometres southeast of Bururi and 4.3 kilometres northwest of Buta.<ref name="GM">{{cite map|title= Maps|publisher=Google Maps}}</ref> On April 30, 1997, the same day as the massacre at nearby Buta, the FDD killed Hutu and two Tutsi people in Kiremba, burning the local hospital and raping two women before killing them.<ref name="Longman(Organization)1998">{{cite book|last=Longman|first=Timothy Paul|title=Proxy Targets: Civilians in the War in Burundi|url=https://archive.org/details/proxytargetscivi0000long|url-access=registration|access-date=21 April 2012|year=1998|publisher=Human Rights Watch|isbn=978-1-56432-179-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/proxytargetscivi0000long/page/83 83]}}</ref> In 2004, the people were tested for epilepsy.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Economic evaluation of epilepsy in Kiremba (Burundi): a case-control study| pmid=15144433 | doi=10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.36303.x | volume=45| journal=Epilepsia| pages=673–677 | last1 = Nsengiyumva | first1 = G | last2 = Druet-Cabanac | first2 = M | last3 = Nzisabira | first3 = L | last4 = Preux | first4 = PM | last5 = Vergnenègre | first5 = A| doi-access = free }}</ref> Kiremba has a Swedish Protestant School, although it is said to be more Anglican in its teachings.<ref name="TuhabonyeBrozek2007">{{cite book|last1=Tuhabonye|first1=Gilbert|last2=Brozek|first2=Gary|title=This Voice in My Heart: A Runner's Memoir of Genocide, Faith, and Forgiveness|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ebQs67OQnOUC&pg=PA219|access-date=21 April 2012|date=22 May 2007|publisher=Harper Collins|isbn=978-0-06-081753-4|page=219}}</ref>

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==External links== *[http://www.maplandia.com/burundi/bururi/bururi/kiremba/ Satellite map at Maplandia.com] *[https://www.yaga-burundi.com/2020/thepoliticianwewant-kiremba-commune-apolitique]

Category:Populated places in Bururi Province