Nyarubuye
Located in the eastern Kibungo province near the Tanzanian border, Nyarubuye is the third national church memorial in Rwanda. At Nyarubuye most Tutsi died outside the church, meaning that the church remains a place of worship up to the present day. In 1994 the mayor of the region told all Tutsi to hide in the church. He promised them safety, but he simultaneously organized an assault with the interahamwe. Thousands upon thousands of Tutsi died. Bones, clothes, and weapons are now displayed in a long hallway in the former Sunday school next to the church. A field of mass graves has also been built across from the church.
The Nyarubuye memorial displays various artifacts and bones from the massacre. Weapons from the massacre are displayed on a long table. The perpetrators used machetes, carjacks, and modified agricultural tools such as hoes.
Victims' clothes sit in huge piles in across from the weapons display. Other piles consist of shoes and other victim artifacts dug up from mass graves. On top of one pile sits a scrap of paper from the Hutu extremist magazine Kangura.
The memorial displays bones on several tables following the clothing display. Skulls are displayed in a series of display cases.
At the end of the artifact hallways lies a decapitated statue of the Virgin Mary. The Hutu killers associated the statute as a Tutsi, further demonstrating the legacy of the identity's racialization over the past century.
The tour shows visitors other physical evidence from the massacre. One memorable image was of a rock used to sharpen machetes. The marks are still visible nearly two decades later.
Since 1994 mass graves have been uncovered throughout the church grounds and in the surrounding area. Officals and survivors discovered hundreds of bodies in this latrine.
The final part of the tour takes visitors to the Nyarubuye reburial sites. Recovered bodies are reburied with respect every year during commemoration.
An incomplete commemoration wall lists the names of identified victims.