Nyamata Church in Kigali, Rwanda
While sightseeing in Kigali, you must visit the Nyamata Parish Catholic Church to pay your respects to the remains of more than 45,000 Tutsis killed in and around the church complex. Your tour of this site will be led by a genocide survivor and should take about 45 minutes. As you view the skulls and bones, some in wooden caskets covered with purple drapes, the guide will explain how the Hutu militants used grenades to blow open the steel doors of the church to get to the Tutsis hiding inside. You will also see the marks left by the rockets and automatic weapons used to slaughter about 10,000 people in the church. Look up to the ceiling and you will notice grenade shrapnel that remains embedded there.
In the days following the initial massacre, 30,000 more people were killed around this church. View bloodstained clothes spread on the benches and visit the underground burial chamber, where thousands of bones bear marks of the spears, machetes, and other weapons used to hack down hapless victims. On your way out of the church, take note of the plaque with the names of the innocents inscribed on it. Entry to this memorial is free, but a small donation to support its upkeep is encouraged.
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Nyamata Church, Rwanda
The interior of Nyamata Church in Rwanda, where 11,800 were massacred in 1994.
Nyamata Genocide Memorial Centre, Bugesera, Rwanda
Nyamata Genocide Memorial Site is one of Rwanda's six National Memorial Genocide Memorial Sites.
Located in Bugesera, 35 km from its capital, the memorial site was a former Roman Catholic church where 10,000 people sought refuge to escape the violence, only to be trapped and massacred by the government interahamwe forces and the local population.
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Ntarama Church Memorial - 1994 RWANDA Genocide
Visit the Ntarama Church in Rwanda, a memorial to 5,000 genocide victims. Estimates are that half a million Rwandan citizens were murdered in the 1994 holocaust. Please never forget this haunting event.
Ntarama Church (Genocide Memorial Site), Rwanda
Ntarama Church was the site of the massacre of 5,000 people - mostly women and children, during the 100-day Rwandan Genocide in 1994.
Ntarama Church was a Catholic Church and Sunday School, about an hour drive from the Rwandan capital, Kigali. WhenRwandan's president Juvénal Habyarimana's plane was shot down on April 6, 1994, the country plunged into civil war - with the systematic killing of Tutsis and moderate Hutus carried out almost immediately after the assassination.
At Ntarama Church, with the growing tension and threat of violence, whole families packed supplies lasting them a few days to seek refuge at the church, believing that the interahamwe (Hutu militias) would not touch the House of God. With 5,000 people, the church and its premises were packed with people and they were able to fend off the interahamwe forces initially, using stones from the church grounds.
However, when the government forces arrive on April 15, 1994, in buses, and armed with guns and grenades, the interahamwe were able to break into the church grounds and began exterminating everyone in the church and its premises, using machetes, guns, clubs, and farming tools.
Today, Ntarama Church is one of 8 official memorial sites in Rwanda, housing the Flame of Hope and a wall of names, in remembrance of the innocent victims of the Rwandan Genocide.
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Outside Nyamata Church, Rwanda
Outside Nyamata Church in north-central Rwanda, where 10,800 were slaughtered in April 1994.
Malpasso Building Project in Nyamata, Rwanda
The Malpasso Building Project is to provide duplex homes for widows in Nyamata, Rwanda.
15 April 1994 - Nyamata Catholic Church | 100 Stories | Kwibuka
100 Stories - 15 April 1994
The genocidal army and Interahamwe systematically massacre 10,000 people at Nyamata Catholic Church from the surrounding area. They kill men, women, and children using grenades, guns, machetes and clubs. Shrapnel from grenades tear through the church ceiling 30 feet from the floor leaving the roof timbers spattered with flesh and blood.
450 Belgian soldiers leave UNAMIR and fly home.
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16 April 1994 - Massacres at Ntarama Catholic Church | 100 Stories | Kwibuka20
Thousands of Tutsi are slaughtered at Ntarama Catholic Church
Nyamata, Rwanda-Genocide Site
Approximately 44,000 people were killed at this site (a church).
Rwanda Eglise de Nyamata / Rwanda Church of Nyamata Genocide
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During the worship time in the Church of God World Mission In Rwanda- Kigali.
Arriving at Nyamata in Rwanda
Arriving at Nyamata in Rwanda where Solace Ministries own a piece of land and are building homes for widows.
Nibakure Community Village - Nyamata-Rwanda 2017.wmv
These are homes of an non-profit organization which started as an orphanage in Nyamata in Rwanda. However, due to government policy changes in phasing out orphanage, the homes are being turned into classrooms to offer education to some of the hundreds of little kids who do not go to school due to poverty or long distances to the next school. Please come alongside Nibakure Village to offer education to this impoverished community. Thank you
Rwandan Genocide Memorial
Nyamata
Nyamata is a Genocide Memorial Church in the Bugesera region of Rwanda.
NYAMATA: HUMIDITY AFFECTING GENOCIDE REMAINS
At a genocide memorial site in Nyamata, Eastern Rwanda, remains of more than 40,000 Tutsi victims could soon be no more if urgent action is not taken. Today, 45,308 victims lay at Nyamata genocide memorial site. Due to humidity, the remains are decomposing, according to IBUKA, the umbrella association of genocide survivors.
Inside the underground mass graves is where coffins containing the remains are placed. The cold and humid conditions are affecting the remains. IBUKA has launched a national campaign mobilizing for support to wash the remains with special chemical composition that maintains them.
Rwanda genocide survivor Charles Mugabe at Nyamata Genocide Memorial Site
On April 10th 1994 about 10,000 people were killed in and around the area of the Catholic Church. People from all around congregated in the church and locked the iron door with a padlock to protect themselves from the marauding killers. Members of Interahamwe, the Hutu militia, and the Rwandese Government Forces from the surrounding area managed to break down the door and entered the church with their rifles, grenades and machetes. They massacred all the people who were inside this church and also the people in the surrounding area.
The brick walls show several gaping holes. The refugees inside had locked the doors to prevent the militia and soldiers from getting to them. So the Interahamwe used sledge hammers to break open holes through which grenades were thrown to kill and stun. Then the killers entered and finished off the survivors, men, women and children, with machetes and clubs, and whatever was at hand...
Million Voices - Rwanda
For Rwanda, a beautiful country with wonderful people.
Kigali Genocide Memorial and Ntarama. Nyamata. and Kibuye Church Memorials.
They said: Many are called and few are chosen,
But I wish some wasn't chosen
for the blood spilling of Rwanda.
Thanks to Wyclef Jean for the song.