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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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.
RWANDA: NTARAMA: DESMOND TUTU VISITS SITE OF MASSACRE
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South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu has broken down in tears at a site where hundreds of women and children were massacred in Rwanda last year.
But he urged rehabilitation, not retribution, for the people responsible for last year's genocide.
And the visiting Anglican cleric expressed compassion for the thousands of accused killers crammed in the capital Kigali's main prison.
At the height of the slaughter that killed more than half a million Rwandans, a number of women and children sought sanctuary in this church at Ntarama, 25 miles (40 kms) south of Kigali.
The debris of the massacre remains at Ntarama Church - the government has left the bones and decayed bodies untouched to serve as a memorial to the unthinkable.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who made a three-day trip to Rwanda, visited the site and found it too much to bear.
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Good Lord help us, help us so that we may be able to prevent yet another massacre of our people.
SUPER CAPTION: Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Despite the emotional impact the memorial had on Tutu, the Nobel peace prize laureate called for forgiveness.
There is much to forgive:
Systematic killings by the former Hutu-dominated government began with the death in a mysterious plane crash of the Hutu president in April, 1994.
The slaughter ended three months later when the Tutsi-led rebels drove the former government, army and allied militias into exile.
Most of the victims were hacked or bludgeoned to death with machetes and clubs in ethnic killings between the Hutus and Tutsis.
More than a million refugees - mainly Hutus - have fled the country and are reluctant to return because they fear retribution.
A priest explained that 400 corpses were found in the Ntarama Church and a few miles away another mass grave revealed 600 bodies.
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These have been collected here in that village and down in the valley and inside the church mainly it's the remains of the wives and children.
SUPER CAPTION: Ntarama Church priest
The U-N has set up an international tribunal, and trials are likely to begin next year.
In the meantime, Rwandan jails are filled with more than 49-thousand people suspected of being involved in the massacres.
At least 9-thousand are in Kigali Central, a prison built for 2-thousand and another stop for Tutu.
Journalists were not allowed inside. But the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town said he saw mothers, grandmothers, old men, boys and small children.
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We are deeply distressed, as everyone I am sure is distressed, at the conditions of overcrowding.
SUPER CAPTION: Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Tutu said the prisoners he met were in good spirits and listened to his prayers for repentance and forgiveness.
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They are such beautiful people and God wants them to be one and we want to be able to do all we can in the power of God to work for peace and reconciliation. To see justice happen - but justice tempered with mercy.
SUPER CAPTION: Archbishop Desmond Tutu
But justice - tempered by mercy or not - will be slow.
The courts are in chaos and the thousands packed into cells are unlikely to come to trial in the near future.
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Ntarama
Ntarama Memorial Centre.
Ntarama Church is the site where some of the most brutal killings of the 1994 Rwandan genocide took place. The church at Ntarama was seen as a safe place by almost 5000 people, many of whom were women and children and who went there for sanctuary. But Ntarama was not a safe place. The victims of the genocide remain there, their bones still strewn with lifeless chaos where they fell nearly ten years ago. Their belongings cover the floor; clothes, suitcases, a child's white sock - the last remnants of a desperate flight for life.
NTARAMA: MISS RWANDA 2016 CONTESTANTS PAY TRIBUTE
Twenty four contestants competing for the Miss Rwanda 2016 crown paid tribute to Genocide victims by visiting Ntarama Genocide Memorial in Bugesera District. They witnessed how Interahamwe militias attacked Ntarama Church and hacked to death over 5,000 innocent Tutsis who had sought refuge at the Holy place. The memorial site illustrates how people were massacred in a brutal way, with the use of grenades, machetes and other traditional weapons. The beauty queens were touched and saddened by what they witnessed at the memorial, and vowed to fight the genocide from happening again in all forms. Apart from honoring the victims, the contestants also participated in a cleaning exercise within and around the memorial.
Camera: Richard Kwizera
Script & Editing: Richard Kwizera
Rwandan Genocide Memorial
Ntarama, Rwanda-Genocide Site
Approximately 5000 people were killed here
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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The tutsi's children were slaughtered in Ntarama catechism house during the Genocide against the Tusti. Interahamwe killed the young innocent Kids after killing their parents in Catholic church located in Ntarama.
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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...
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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