Bisesero Genocide Memorial Centre
 Memorial centre sculpture | |
  Location within Rwanda | |
| Established | 1 June 2994 (centre) |
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| Coordinates | 2°10′44″S 29°20′17″E / 2.179°S 29.338°E |
| Type | Genocide museum |
The Bisesero Genocide Memorial, near Karongi-Kibuye - Western Rwanda, which commemorates the Rwandan genocide in 1994. 40,000 people died here. There is a centre here but it is incomplete.[1]
Location
The memorial is on a hill at the small settlement of Bisesero which is about 60 km by road from Kibuye, Rwanda.[1]
History
The Rwanda Genocide began in April 1994. 40,000 people died in the area around Bisesero. Unusually these people offered some defence and they appealled to French peace keeping troops for assistance. The troops had no mandate to intervene and they withdrew from the carnage. 40,000 Rwandans died around Bisesero.[1]
This memorial centre is one of six major centres in Rwanda that commemorate the Rwanda Genocide. The others are the Kigali Memorial Centre, Murambi Memorial Centre and Ntarama Genocide Memorial Centre and others at Nyamata and Nyarubuye.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 Bisesero: The Hill of Resistance, Noam Schimmel, 2012, Huffington Post, Retrieved 3 March 2016
- ↑ Sites mémoriaux du génocide : Nyamata, Murambi, Bisesero et Gisozi, UNESCO, Retrieved 2 March 2015
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