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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…

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…

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…

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

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 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 above photo…

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…

The Kibuye memorial near Lake Kivu. The memorial sits next to the church, the site of a major massacre. Madeline Albright visited the site during her visit to Rwanda in the mid-1990s. The memorial's close proximity to the church demonstrates how the…

In addition to the seven national memorial sites, every district has a local memorial. Nearly every district experienced intense casualties during the genocide. In some districts these memorials are mass graves. In others the memorial is just a…

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.…