Memorial sites of the Genocide: Nyamata, Murambi, Gisozi and Bisesero
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How it came to be
Between April and July 1994 armed militias known as the Interahamwe targeted Tutsi across Rwanda and also killed moderate Hutu and Twa people. An estimated one million people died. This property commemorates the victims at four memorial sites.
At Nyamata, a Catholic church built on the hill in 1980 became a scene of massacre. The memorial on the site of the church holds the remains of more than 45,000 victims, over 10,000 of whom were killed inside the church. At Murambi in the south, a technical school built in 1990 was another scene of massacre, and a memorial was founded there on 21 April 1995.
On Gisozi hill in Kigali the Kigali Genocide Memorial was built in 1999, and more than 250,000 victims are buried there. On Bisesero hill in the Western Province a memorial built in 1998 remembers people who resisted their attackers for more than two months before they were killed. The four sites were inscribed as a World Heritage property in 2023.
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