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As I walked through additional rooms, I noticed how more and more bodies were that of mothers cradling their children. One room towards the end of the tour consisted only of little babies. Both times I visited Murambi I decided to stop viewing the…

During Operation Turquoise French troops set up a camp next to the mass graves on the Murambi hill. A marker now sits indicating where the French Flag flew. The tour guide takes the visitor to this site immediately after visiting the bodies.

Another marker indicates the site of a volley ball court set up for French troops. It is alleged that French troop played volleyball with interahamwe members. The volleyball court sits meters away from several mass graves. The French markers at these…

In addition to the signs marking the location of mass graves, Murambi preserves one dug up mass grave to illustrate the physical depth of the hole.

In 2010 Aegis Trust and CNLG opened a museum exhibition that told the story of the genocide in Gikongoro. After viewing the exhibition the tour guide takes visitors outside to a coverd mass grave for a moment of silence. After that the visitors walk…

After visiting the French sites, the tour leads to additional rooms that display bones and clothing similar to other memorials such as Ntarama, Nyamata, and Nyarubuye.

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 to kill their victims.…

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 a racist cartoon 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 thought the statue fitted the Tutsi Semitic racial stereotype, further demonstrating the legacy of the identity's racialization over the past century.…