Memorial Sites
Visit these sacred places of remembrance and reflection
7 memorial sites found
Bisesero Genocide Memorial
Victims Buried
40,000
Established
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The area is notable for organized local resistance where Tutsi tried to defend themselves, it stands out for the two-month resistance by Tutsi civilians who fought back with traditional weapons (machetes, spears) before being overwhelmed; it is remembered as both a site of massacre and of courageous resistance.
Kigali Genocide Memorial (Gisozi)
Victims Buried
250,000
Established
2004
The main national memorial and education centre in Kigali. Exhibitions document the genocide, house survivor testimony and archives, and it includes gardens, a children's memorial and mass graves. Managed with international partners to provide education and support to survivors.
Murambi Genocide Memorial (Murambi Technical School)
Victims Buried
50,000
Established
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Its preserved classrooms that display victims' remains and belongings; one of the most powerful and striking museum-style memorials documenting the brutality of the massacres.
Ntarama Genocide Memorial (Ntarama Church)
Victims Buried
5,000
Established
1995
The church-turned-memorial contains shelves of human remains, clothing and personal items; it documents one of the many church massacres during April 1994 and serves as a stark educational site.
Nyamata Genocide Memorial (Nyamata Church)
Victims Buried
50,000
Established
1997
The former Catholic church where thousands sought refuge and were massacred; the church interior preserves clothing, belongings and other evidence, making it a powerful witness site. It preserves the church largely as it stood after the killings: bullet-marked walls, blood-stained altar cloths, pews piled with victims' clothing, and mass graves behind the church compound.
Nyanza Genocide Memorial
Victims Buried
105,000
Established
1994
The Nyanza memorial commemorates the deaths that followed the withdrawal of UN peacekeepers from ETO on 11th April 1994, an event that left hundreds-to-thousands exposed and then massacred. The site is a place of remembrance, education and local commemoration, used each year during Kwibuka (national remembrance) and by schools, community groups and national bodies to teach about the genocide and to honor victims, and it contains mass graves, monuments with victims' names and a Garden of Memory; it is used for remembrance, survivor testimonies and education.
Nyarubuye Genocide Memorial
Victims Buried
—
Established
1995
A national memorial site commemorating the Nyarubuye genocide with educational and remembrance facilities.