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Like at Ntarama, perpetrators attacked the barricaded church with grenades and artillery. The damage from the grenade attacks can be seen on the church's door and on the explosion imprint on the ground. Most of the windows inside the church are…

The visitor can often see how the individual victim died. Many skulls contain damage inflicted by a machete, spear, or bullet entry. Horizontal cuts indicate machete wounds. Victims with circular wounds died from bullets or spears.

The Nyanza memorial lies on the outskirts of Kigali in the Kicukiro district. The memorial consists of a flame holder that burns during the month of April similar to the Gisozi memorial. There is also a wall of names commemorating the Tutsi who died…

The artifacts are displayed in one long hallway in the former school building of the Nyarubuye church.

The memorial displays bones on several tables following the clothing display. Skulls are displayed in a series of display cases.

A cross below the Rwandan flag marks the site of current President Paul Kagame's site dedication speech in 1995. An unfinished commemoration wall lists the names of identified victims. However, this wall is far from complete. As the Rwandan…

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.…

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. A storage room where sexual violence occurred is also shown on the…

Since 1994 mass graves have been uncovered throughout the church grounds and in the surrounding area. Officials and survivors discovered hundreds of bodies in this latrine located near next to the church.

The final part of the tour takes visitors to the Nyarubuye reburial sites. Recovered bodies are reburied with respect every year during commemoration. Purple flowers (a traditional color for mourning) cover the graves. The color purple can be seen…