Other Sites

The Nyanza memorial lies on the outskirts of Kigali in the Kicukiro district.

The local Musanze memorial in northwest Rwanda.

The Kibuye memorial near Lake Kivu. The memorial sits next to the church, the site of a major massacre.

The Butare memorial is located on the campus of the southern Rwandan university. The memorial commemorates professors and students who perished.

It took me a three hours via a jeep from Kibuye to reach the Bisesero memorial. The Bisesero memorial honors the Tutsi resistance in western Rwanda against Hutu militias during the genocide. Situated on a hill, the memorial includes a winding path that narrows as the visitor ascends. This is meant to illustrate how the numbers of resistors slowly died out as the genocide progressed.    

The Gisozi memorial is home to the Kigali Memorial Centre. Funded by the British Holocaust memorial foundation Aegis Trust, the site includes a museum exhibition, mass grave sites of Kigali victims, and a series of memorial gardens.

The Habyarimana Presidential Palace preserves the plane crash site that took the lives of President Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira on April 6, 1994. The plane crashed onto the palace grounds. Parts of the plane are preserved. The rest of the palace has been left to rot.

The Parliament building preserves the artillery damage from the genocide inflicted on the complex.