GENOCIDE CAMPAIGN MUSEUM
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Located in Kimihurura, the museum, inaugurated on December 13, 2017 by Paul Kagame, is located in the Parliament compound. It was in this building that the struggle for liberation began in December 1993. The building renovated with the help of the European Union still bears the scars of the war. Large shell holes are visible from the boulevard, and are preserved for the memory. It was in this building that the 600-man battalion of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) was housed before the genocide, under the Arusha Accords. They stayed there for four months before being ordered, on April 7, 1994, by the Supreme Commander and current President of the Republic, Paul Kagame, to save the Tutsis who were being massacred. The museum does not recount the entire history of the Rwandan genocide, but it does detail the military campaign plan to end the genocide, executed by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), then led by Paul Kagame, following the withdrawal of UN troops. It recounts all the facts and acts that took place there. In some ways, it is Paul Kagame's "origin story", which helps to complete the picture of this terrible period when Rwanda was abandoned by the West. A way to show the world the long road that led the country of a thousand hills, according to the official discourse, on the path of "reconciliation, unity and development". Allow 2 hours for a guided tour.
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