Miguel Ángel Isla Lucio

Brother Miguel Ángel Isla Lucio was a Marist Brother and missionary who was one of four Marist Brothers martyred at the Nyamirangwe refugee camp, Zaire. Together with the brothers of his community who were assassinated, Brother Fernando de la Fuente de la Fuente, Brother Servando Mayor García, and Brother Julio Rodríguez Jorge, Brother Fernando is commemorated in Marist circles as one of The Martyrs of Bugobe.

Assassination

The brothers were assassinated on 31 October 1996 around eight o'clock in the evening. They were apparently shot. The perpetrators of the crime were a group of the Officers of the Rwandan Patriotic Army (APR), who murdered the Archbishop Christophe Munzihirwa two days before and the Rwandan and Burundian refugees in the refugee camp Nyamirangwe. The four bodies were recovered from the waste-water tank on 14 November and have been interred at the brothers' novitiate house in Nyangezi.

References

• • http://www.champagnat.org/en/220413001.htm