In Rwanda and other places, Mary warned the people long before tragedies struck

In Kibeho, Rwanda, Our Lady's apparitions began on November 28, 1981, and ended on November 28, 1989.

On November 28, 2006, at the inauguration of the Jubilee Year (25 years), Nathalie Mukamazimpaka, one of Kibeho's three seers, recalled:

"Our Lady taught me to pray the crown of the Rosary of 7 Sorrows because she said that a tragedy was brewing in Rwanda. Our Lady asked us to change our lifestyle, to love the sacraments, to do penance, to pray unceasingly by reciting the Rosary of the 7 Sorrows for the conversion of hearts of those who have strayed from God, and to be humble by asking forgiveness and forgiving."

Bishop Augustin Misago (1943-2012), bishop of Gikongoro since 1992, in one of the regions hardest hit by the massacres in Rwanda (1) between Tutsis and Hutus, recalled in 2006 the shock and concern generated by the visionaries' account:

"Now we can say that it was a prediction of the Rwandan tragedy, but I remember that on August 15, 1982, the feast of the Assumption, instead of seeing the Virgin full of joy, the seers witnessed terrible, frightening visions of corpses gushing with blood, left unburied on the hills. Nobody knew what these terrible images meant. Now we can look back on the events and consider that they were a vision of what would occur not only in Rwanda, but also in the Great Lakes region where blood is being shed, in Burundi, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo".

The Bishop of Gikongoro added that Our Lady's message at Kibeho concerns all humanity.

"We need a conversion of hearts to achieve greater justice. We live in a situation of global imbalance, where the rich continue to get richer and the poor to get poorer. It's a shameful situation that each of us must evaluate according to his or her own conscience."

Fides Agency November 30, 2006

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(1) The Rwandan genocide between Tutsis and Hutus took place from April 6 to July 4, 1994.