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Michel Kayoya

Died in 1972

Michel Kayoya was born on 8 December 1934 in the Mwaro region. Trained at the seminaries of Mugera and Burasira, then in Belgium with the Missionaries of Africa and in Lille, he was ordained a priest on 8 July 1963. He founded the Buyogoma Cultural Centre, ran the minor seminary of Mugera, then became general treasurer of the diocese of Muyinga. Arrested during the massacres that struck educated Hutu, he was killed in Gitega on 15 May 1972.

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