Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda - Rwanda Safari News

   Rwandan is one of the small countries in Africa that is nursing the injuries caused by the genocidal mass killings of innocent Tutsi by majority members of the Hutu tribe. The world recognized blood sheds fell in the land of thousand hills in the month of April,1994 and within period of only 100-days, it had claimed lives of people estimated to be between 500,000 to 1000,000 Rwandans. Today so many visitors from all over the world are under taking safaris to Rwanda to visit the various genocide memorial sites in order to pay condolences to relatives of the Rwandese that lost their lives in the 1994 genocide.
Kigali genocide Memorial Center situated in the Center of Kigali city is one of the sites most visited by different travelers spending their safari tour in Rwanda‘s Kigali city. The Memorial site was established by the efforts of two bodies’ i.e. UK-based Aegis Trust and Kigali City Council. The genocide site which is located just three kilometers drive distance from Kigali capital city is the nearest Genocide site often visited by even travelers who undertake gorilla trekking safaris to Rwanda. The site is easily accessed from the Kigali International Airport.
The Center is where remains of total number of 258,000 Rwandese people who were massacred during the 1994 genocide have been assembled from various places of Kigali Capital and were buried in the graveyard of this memorial Center and hence different travelers to the Center visit the place to share the sorry with the surviving relatives of the victims who are employed in the site.
Taking safari tour to Rwanda’s Kigali Genocide Memorial Center will expose you to the oral testimonies that have been gathered from different Kigali city quarters where the Minority Tutsi where mercilessly killed. The site has documents as well as publications and human bones plus skulls that have been gathered, treated for conservation and to be visited by different tourists planning for  safaris to Rwanda. Besides the publications, the site also has weapons that are anticipated to have been used during the 1994 genocide. Among the weapons include the machetes as well as clubs and swords among others.
In addition, Kigali Genocide Memorial also houses objects like, photographs, rosaries, identity cards, pipes, shoes and clothes that were left by victims of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The site is partitioned into various parts such as the three exhibition spaces where visitors on Rwanda safaris and tours can view the remains of the Genocide victims, the Genocide Archive of Rwanda, a library which contains reading materials about the historical event and others aspects of Rwanda, a documentation center as well as an education center for peace and reconciliation and the memorial gardens. All these different parts have significance to travelers who under takes safari to Rwanda’s Kigali Memorial Center.
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