Kigali genocide memorial centre is located at Gisozi approximately 10 minutes’ drive from Kigali Rwanda’s largest capital. The country is always described as the place/land of a thousand hills” because of the nature of the landscape.
The tribal war that was reported in 1994 that cause large thousands of masscress resulted into the formation or establishment of Kigali genocide. To outsiders the genocide was represented as tribal-based ethnic violence, with the Tutsis the victims and the Hutus as the perpetrators.
The Kigali genocide memorial was the all about peace and reconciliation among the Rwandese who were committed fight against the idea of genocide. The Kigali genocide memorial is where over 250000 victims have been buried these include the young, adults, women and men.
The Kigali genocide memorial took place in 1994 between the two tribes in Rwanda between the hutu and the tutsi people. The 250000 people were buried at Gisozi center which serves for the purpose of education and documentation.
The wall of names is recognizing those who died and the project/work is still in progress. Many of the names are gathered and yet to be discovered and added in the records, inadditon, some of the people buried in the graves are unknown.
The Kigali genocide memorial garden clearly gives the history of the tribal conflicts against the tutsi and hutu. The conflict left the mass of massacres and many were displaced in the virunga national park in Congo because they were thinking for settlement.
The Kigali genocide memorial center is one of six major centers in Rwanda that commemorate the Rwandan genocide. The others are the Murambi Memorial Centre, Bisesero Genocide Memorial Centre and Ntarama Genocide Memorial Centre and others at Nyamata and Nyarubuye.
The remains of the people at Gisozi were brought from all over the capital after they had been left in the street or thrown in the river. They are buried together in lots of 100,000. The memorial was then opened in 1999 as a remarkable site for the 1994 tribal conflict.
Kigali genocide memorial garden has 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 memorial center documents the genocide and also describes the history of Rwanda that preceded the event, the building accommodates three permanent exhibitions, the largest of which documents the genocide in 1994, helping to give Rwanda’s nightmare a historical context.
There is a children’s memorial, with life-sized photos, accompanied by intimate details about their favorite toys, their last words and the manner in which they were killed. There is also an exhibition on the history of genocidal violence around the world. The Education Centre, Memorial Gardens and National Documentation Centre of the Genocide contribute to a meaningful tribute to those who perished and form a powerful educational tool for the next generation.
