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The place is really heart breaking! Leave a Comment Address: Gisozi, Kigali
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When the killings were underway, a large portion of the Tutsi-christian-minority, flocked to churches. Assuming that their Hutu attackers (the Interehamwe) and fellow christians, would not enter.
That however was not to be. The killers found their conveniently rounded up and unarmed targets, and what followed was a bloodbath of immense propotions.
The near 5,000 Tutsis taking shelter were were hacked to death with machetes and clubs. Soon the attention turned to the children, who were dashed to the walls one by one and killed. The stains from which can still be seen. The few that survived, by hiding amongst the dead, lay beside bodies from their own familes. Mothers, children, brothers... Leave a Comment
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 the childrens section by husain
It contains ten mass graves- a site of burial for almost 250,000 victims, who were killed in the Kigali region.
After the genocide, as mass graves were being discovered around the city, it was decided that a single monument/ burial place should be created, where the victims could be laid to rest with dignity.
The memorial houses a children's section, a particularly powerful experience to read about the children- how they lived, and how they died.
Amongst other things, it traces how things came to being so bad, how the ideology of genocide emerged, how the tragedy could have been averted, and how the world ignored the signs and warnings repeatedly.
Some of the survivors of the genocide have been trained as guides at the centre. Leave a Comment
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 Ntarama church by husain
We were aware that the Ntarama church was among the genocide sites. We knew it was going to shock us when we saw it, but werent prepared for the sights that lay in store.
While we approached the site upon a little hill, there were no pointers to the acts that took place here in April1994. Seemed like a peaceful part of the countryside, but only till you reach a little board with some statistics, erected just outside the church compound. It read: `Ntarama church, Genocide site, +-5,000 persons'. Leave a Comment Directions: South of the capital Kigali. The roads are in a pretty basic state- once you get out of Kigali. Pretty much a bumpy dirt track. Will probably take you more time to reach there than the distance sujjests
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The skulls that are still largely intact, most bearing the distinct machete crack, have been neatly arranged in rows on wooden planks, each one telling a painful story. A bizzarre reminder of the 100 days that history tried to ignore. Leave a Comment Directions: Kigali district, south of the capital
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I have strong concerns about which pictures to post and which to keep private, though the Rwandan citizens who accompanied my group on our visits to the genocide sites encouraged our taking pictures and said, "It's important that people know what happened here." So, I do think that I would be remiss not to encourage other Americans visiting Rwanda to make a trip to the Gisozi Memorial Education Center in Kigali. It is not an easy tour. As the brochure says, "Gisozi...is the burial site of over 250,000 people killed in a three month period during the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. It is a symbol of the extreme and horrific consequences of ethnic division; the result of decades of hatred, impunity and systematic persecution of a minority group. ...to prevent such things, we need to learn how and why these tragedies happen...." Leave a Comment Address: Aegis Rwanda, PO Box 7251, Kigali, RwandaPhone: 0856 7289Directions: Suggested Reading Before Your Visit to Rwanda: This Is to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
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