Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre, Rwanda
This museum serves as a memorial of the between 800,000 and one million people who died during the hundred days of the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. I filmed this in March 2013.
A Survivor's Story as a Guide at Rwanda's Genocide Memorial | Short Film Showcase
As the head guide at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda, Serge Rwigamba leads heads of state and VIPs such as Angelina Jolie through his country’s deeply painful past. The task is also very personal: He lost his father and countless other family members in the 1994 genocide. The role, he says, is therapeutic, a way of understanding his trauma. Like any job though, it comes with its quirks, characters, and challenges as seen in this short directed by Juan Herrero and produced by Tik Root. This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
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Kigali Genocide Memorial, Kigali, Rwanda
Kigali Genocide Memorial honours the memory of the one million victims of the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. This permanent memorial provides an educational and awareness tool to reflect on Rwanda's dark chapter. The memorial is also the resting place for 250,000 victims who were massacred in Kigali.
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President Xi Jinping of China visits Kigali Genocide Memorial.
President Xi Jinping of China visits Kigali Genocide Memorial.
Kigali Genocide Memorial 21.11.2016
The Kigali Genocide Memorial in Kigali is the final resting place for about 250,000 victims of the Genocide against the Tutsi minority and moderate Hutus in Rwanda perpetrated by Hutu majority and Interahamwe army. It reminds the murder of nearly one million Rwandans killed in the genocide which began on 7 April 1994 and continued for about 100 days. There is a gallery at the center which tells the woeful tale through pictures, paintings and graphic notes. The Kigali Memorial Centre is located in the northern Kisozi (Gisozi) district, about ten minutes’ drive from the center of town, easily accessible by taxi.
The Center is in fact the expression of the remorse of the Rwandans as a whole on the brutal offence committed towards humanity. Entrance to the Center and Gallery is free.
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Rwanda's Kagame lays wreath at genocide memorial in Kigali
Rwandan President Paul Kagame and world leaders take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, where more than 250,000 victims are believed to be buried, as they commemorate the 25th anniversary of the genocide.
Camp Kigali Memorial, Kigali, Rwanda
Camp Kigali Memorial is dedicated to the ten Belgian UN peacekeepers who were murdered while protecting Rwandan Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana during the start of the Rwandan Genocide.
The Belgian solders were sent by the UN Peacekeeping Force to escort Prime Minister Uwilingiyimana to Radio Rwanda, after the plane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down as it was landing in Kigali, killing both presidents. The Rwandan Presidential Guard forced the Belgian UN peacekeepers to surrender their weapons. They were then killed, forcing the evacuation of foreigners from Rwanda.
The ten granite columns each represent a murdered Belgian soldier, with cuts made to mark the age of the soldier at the time of his death. The bullet-ridden building where the soldiers spent their last moments still stands, and is today, a memorial dedicated to the memory of the soldiers and the Rwandan Genocide.
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Rwandan Genocide Memorial
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Two decades after the darkest chapter in Rwanda's history, the country is still coming to grips with the reality of the genocide, and striving to achieve reconciliation between victims and perpetrators.
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Rwanda : Kagame dépose une gerbe au mémorial du génocide à Kigali | AFP Images
Le président rwandais dépose une gerbe au mémorial de Gisozi à Kigali alors que le Rwanda commémore le génocide de 1994 au cours duquel au moins 800.000 personnes périrent en cent jours, essentiellement parmi les Tutsi.
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This is the Kigali Genocide Memorial located in Kigali, Rwanda.
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Euphrasie, Alain, Sylvine, Sonia and Serge are at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre, a place to remember all the people who died and suffered. It's a place which educates people about what happened, so history does not repeat itself.
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The President of Zambia Edgar Lungu pays respects to victims of the Genocide against the Tutsi. he delegation tour in Kigali Genocide Memorial Center exhibits to learn more about the history of the Genocide against the Tutsi.
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Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda
It was one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century. In 1994, an estimated 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda in the span of 100 days as the world stood by.
The Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre takes visitors on a journey through those dark days and the strive for healing and reconciliation in the genocide's aftermath. It serves as a sobering reminder of the effects of colonization and the horrors capable by mankind.
Most importantly, it is a memorial to the many lives lost.
250,000 of those killed are interred here. May they rest in peace.
Meet the Guides team at the Kigali Genocide Memorial
The video introduces our team at the Kigali Genocide Memorial sharing their experiences as witnesses of the genocide against the Tutsi and what it means for them to be part of the team committed to always helping giving visitors at KGM a meaningful, informative and educational experience.
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RWANDA - Kigali Genocide Memorial Visit
This video may not capture the actual mood and authentic feeling of being there, but it is just a summary through my eyes
Kigali Genocide Memorial in Kigali, Rwanda
Kigali Genocide Memorial in Kigali, Rwanda
The Kigali Genocide Memorial commemorates the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. The remains of over 250,000 people are interred there. There is a visitor centre for students and those wishing to understand the events leading up to the events of 1994. The Centre is a permanent memorial to those who fell victim to the genocide and serves as a place in which the bereaved could bury their family and friends. The Centre is managed and run by the Aegis Trust on behalf of the National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide
Long before visiting the Kigali Genocide Memorial, even before stepping onto Rwandan soil, I had so many questions.
Questions every visitor to Rwanda must ask to begin the journey to understanding a country that has been to hell and back.
What led to the unconscionable, systematic slaughter of 800,000 Rwandans — mostly ethnic Tutsis — over just 100 days in 1994? How does a country not just survive but recover from such a harrowing human catastrophe? How does the atrocity influence the interactions between Rwandans today and what deep, dark holes are left in their hearts?
In his gentle voice, my Ugandan guide Baker explained that although there is no explicit animosity displayed between Tutsis and Hutus now, who knows the depth of pain and sense of injustice buried inside? If anyone has a right to feel bitter, I thought, it’s Rwandans — some children at the time — who have seen their entire families murdered by militia groups and even neighbours. Men hacked with machetes like cattle at the butcher. Women forced to kill their husbands before being raped and killed themselves. Children clubbed to death.
Remarkably though, Rwanda today is a country rebuilt. As I was driven into Kigali, I found a clean, developed city (Rwanda is one of the cleanest countries in Africa) with a strong infrastructure, modern buildings and well-paved roads — the very streets where Tutsis were openly maimed and killed just 21 years ago. I wanted to learn more, to reconcile the Rwanda of progress with the Rwanda of 1994 and its blood-stained past. There was only one place to start: the Kigali Genocide Memorial.
Sites of this kind aren’t new to me. I’ve visited the Anne Frank House in the Netherlands, a former Nazi concentration camp in Austria, the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Cambodia, but this? The Rwandan genocide was not just shockingly rapid, it was alarmingly recent. I was a university student at the time, anxiety-ridden about my exams and grumbling about my commute between home, school and my part-time job — all while the greatest atrocity of my time was being committed on a distant continent.
Inside the Kigali Genocide Memorial
Opened a decade after the genocide, the memorial is a solemn, tear-inducing museum. With giant wall displays, archival documents, photos, video footage and weapons encased in glass, the indoor exhibit sheds light on the Rwandan genocide, as well its pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial roots. The room filled with human skulls and bones was chilling but most heart-wrenching was the children’s memorial. From the details displayed next to their photos, I learned each child’s favourite foods and activities. It was like viewing a family album — except it abruptly ends with how the youngster’s life was violently snuffed out.
To provide an historical perspective, the indoor exhibit also delves into the sinister ideologies that provoked the world’s largest genocidal massacres from the Namibian genocide to the Holocaust. The Kigali Genocide Memorial is an important reminder that ethnic cleansing of this kind is a global phenomenon.
The Outdoor Exhibit
By the time I reached the exit of the indoor exhibit, I was yearning for daylight and fresh air. I stepped outside. Surrounding the centre are peaceful gardens for quiet reflection, created as if the developers knew visitors would need to recompose themselves after such a core-rattling experience.
I inhaled and exhaled with intention and a sense of relief until I came upon the tombs. Covered by giant plates of concrete, mass graves for over 250,000 victims serve as a place for visitors to honour those lost, and for the loved ones of the victims to grieve and remember.
How the Rwandan genocide could have happened as the international community looked on just over two decades ago is unfathomable but it’s incumbent upon us to at least try to understand.
The Kigali Genocide Memorial should be included on everyone’s Rwanda travel itinerary. It may leave you struggling for words, in tears — or both. It may infuriate you. It may destroy your faith in humanity.
But one thing is for certain: this place matters. The victims and survivors matter, and they deserve our time and respect.
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