[1] There is a visitor centre for students and others wishing to understand the events leading up to the Rwanda genocide against Tutsi in 1994.

The Centre is a permanent memorial to those who fell victim to the genocide and serves as a place where the bereaved could bury their family and friends.

The Centre is managed and run by the Aegis Trust on behalf of the National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide.

To outsiders, the genocide was represented as tribal-based ethnic violence, with the Tutsis the victims and the Hutus as the perpetrators.

Unlike the ex-concentration camps at Auschwitz Birkenau, the Rwanda site include human remains and the tools and weapons used in their destruction.

[4] The upstairs floor of the centre includes three permanent exhibitions, the largest of which documents the genocide in 1994, helping to give Rwanda’s nightmare a historical context.

[5] There is a children’s memorial, with life-sized photos, accompanied by intimate details about their favorite toys, their last words and the manner in which they were killed.

[5] The informative audio tour (US$15) includes background on the divisive colonial experience in Rwanda and as the visit progresses, the exhibits become steadily more powerful, as visitors are confronted with the crimes that took place here and moving video testimony from survivors.