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The Nyamata Genocide Memorial is based around a former church south of
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/ref> The identity cards were what identified people as either Tutsi or Hutu. People in the surrounding area were also killed after the massacre at the church. The remains of 50,000 people are buried here.Nyamata church
Lonely Planet, Retrieved 4 March 2016
Nyamata Liberation day
panoramic tour in 2014,
Genocide Archive of Rwanda
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Kigali
Kigali () is the Capital (political), capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geographic centre in a region of rolling hills, with a series of valleys and ridges joined by steep slopes. As a primate city, Kigali has been Rwa ...
in Rwanda
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, which commemorates the Rwandan genocide
The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu ...
in 1994. The remains of 50,000 people are buried here.
Location
The memorial is based around a former church which is about south of Kigali inRwanda
Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator ...
, which commemorates the Rwandan genocide
The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu ...
in 1994. This memorial is one of six national memorial sites in Rwanda that commemorate the Rwanda Genocide
The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu ...
. The others are the Murambi Memorial Centre, Bisesero Genocide Memorial Centre
The Bisesero Genocide Memorial, near Karongi-Kibuye - Western Rwanda, which commemorates the Rwandan genocide in 1994. 40,000 people died here.
Location
The memorial is on a hill at the small settlement of Bisesero which is about 60 km by road fr ...
, Ntarama Genocide Memorial Centre
Ntarama Genocide Memorial Centre ( rw, Urwibutso rwa jenoside rwa Ntarama, french: Mémorial du génocide à Ntarama) is one of six genocide museums in Rwanda. Five thousand people were killed here in the Catholic church.
Location
Ntarama is loca ...
, Kigali Genocide Memorial
The Kigali Genocide Memorial commemorates the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The remains of over 250,000 people are interred there.
There is a visitor centre for students and others wishing to understand the events leading up to the genocide that occurr ...
, and Nyarubuye Memorial.Sites mémoriaux du génocide : Nyamata, Murambi, Bisesero et GisoziUNESCO
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, Retrieved 4 March 2015 There are over 250 registered memorial sites that commemorate genocide in Rwanda.
History
The Rwandan genocide
The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu ...
began in April 1994. Many Tutsi people gathered here as churches were considered a place of safety. About 10,000 people gathered here and the people locked themselves in. The church walls today show how the perpetrators made holes in the walls of the church so that grenades could be thrown into the church. After this the people inside were shot or killed with machete
Older machete from Latin America
Gerber machete/saw combo
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s. The ceiling of the church shows the bullet holes and the altar cloth is still stained with blood of the people that were murdered. Most of the remains have been buried but clothing and identity cards are left.Genocide Archive of Rwanda/ref> The identity cards were what identified people as either Tutsi or Hutu. People in the surrounding area were also killed after the massacre at the church. The remains of 50,000 people are buried here.Nyamata church
Lonely Planet, Retrieved 4 March 2016
See also
*Nyamata
Nyamata is a town in the Bugesera District, southeastern Rwanda. Nyamata literally means "place of milk" from the two Kinyarwanda words "nya-" (of) and "amata" (milk). It is the location of Nyamata Genocide Memorial, commemorating the Rwandan geno ...
References
External links
Nyamata Liberation day
panoramic tour in 2014,
The Guardian
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Genocide Archive of Rwanda
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