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…
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…
Every year new mass graves are uncovered in the Nyamata area. Those located near the Nyamata memorial are afterwards reburied in the memorial's mass crypts. The monument pictured above honors and names victims identified from a recently discovered…
After exiting the sanctuary, the tour takes the visitor behind the church to the mass crypts. Visitors walk through the crypts, viewing shelves upon shelves of bones and coffins of identified remains. The walk through has an overwhelming feeling as…