day 1- Genocide Memorial

we just got back from the Memorial Museum. it was an amazing place and made us all feel very shocked by what we saw. the museum was in three parts: the largest was the one about the Rwandan Genocide itself, with one exhibition about genocides in general and the most disturbing one of larger than life pictures of children with facts about them (i.e. their favourite colour and last words etc.) and then how they were brutally killed. this made us all feel shocked at how evil a human being could possibly be.






the weather has turned against us as well a little bit, unlike this mornings great weather it has been raining and overcast but we have high hopes for the good weather to return tomorrow. we are going to be visiting another genocide memorial museum sometime in the day and then who knows?




pictures:


onslow, zimmer, whiteaway and ritchie at the Genocide Museum













one of many plaques at the Memorial Museum











at the bottom of the garden there were lots of these concrete blocks which we found out were mass graves. at this Centre alone there were 258 000 people buried there. to this day more are being found and then buried.







a view from the centre. where ever you looked there were sprawling shanty towns with obvious complete poverty everywhere.

please leave comments and tell us what you think....

harry