Rwanda’s genocide memorial sites wasting away

The Kigina memorial site on the roadside behind a banana plantation and a home. PHOTO | DANIEL S NTWARI |

As you walk around the building at the Ntarama Genocide Memorial Site in Bugesera district, you will notice the holes through which grenades were thrown in to kill the estimated 5,000 people who had sought refuge here during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis.

Inside the building, the walls are still blood stained, the clothes of the victims piled on the pews, and the bones and skulls that were recovered are neatly arranged on shelves.