Ndora is a village and commune/sector in Butare Province

Butare Province

Butare was a province of Rwanda prior to its dissolution in January 2006. Butare city is the second largest city in Rwanda and one of the nation's former twelve provinces. It is located in south-central region of the country and borders Burundi to the south...

, southwestern Rwanda

Rwanda

Rwanda or , officially the Republic of Rwanda , is a country in central and eastern Africa with a population of approximately 11.4 million . Rwanda is located a few degrees south of the Equator, and is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

, located roughly 10 kilometres east of the city of Butare

Butare

Butare is a city in the Southern Province of Rwanda and capital of Huye district. It was the capital of the former Butare Province, Rwanda, that was dissolved on January 1, 2006....

. It is a farming community inhabited mainly by Hutu people. Pauline Nyiramasuhuko

Pauline Nyiramasuhuko

Pauline Nyiramasuhuko is a Rwandan politician who was the Minister for Family Welfare and the Advancement of Women. She was accused of having incited troops and militia to rape thousands of women during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994...

 was born in Ndora in 1946.
Callixte Kalimanzira

Callixte Kalimanzira

Callixte Kalimanzira was the Interior Minister of the interim government of Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. .Kalimanzira was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for his actions during the genocide in 2005 on three counts: genocide, complicity in Genocide and direct and...

, head of the Ministry of Interior and Communal Development, met in Ndora on June 7, 1994 and warned the people that the Rwandan Patriotic Front

Rwandan Patriotic Front

The Rwandan Patriotic Front abbreviated as RPF is the current ruling political party of Rwanda, led by President Paul Kagame. It governs in a coalition with other parties...

 ([RPF) were using small children who should also become targets.There is said to be an iron-smelting furnace in Ndora.A number of Hutu women in the village were widowed during the Rwandan Genocide

Rwandan Genocide

The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass murder of an estimated 800,000 people in the small East African nation of Rwanda. Over the course of approximately 100 days through mid-July, over 500,000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate...

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