The Gisozi Memorial site in Rwanda is the final resting place of more than a quarter of a million people killed during the 100-day-long genocide
KIGALI - Every weekday, Aline Uwase Turatsinze gets up, washes her face and rides a motorbike to the site where more than 60 members of her family were buried after being murdered.
“It’s a responsibility to be standing here ... I am protecting the memory but as well putting the ‘Never again’ slogan in action so that it might not happen anywhere in the world. Not in Rwanda, not anywhere in the world.” Each day, she walks through the memory room filled with the photos of children who were killed, accompanied by details about their favourite toys and the manner of their deaths. UNICEF estimated more than 300,000 children were killed. Most were hacked or beaten to death.
“I don’t know how he was killed, but I imagine his death resembles this video. The murderers had machetes. Clubs...” she tailed off. As the country recovered, some opposition leaders have criticised the government of President Paul Kagame for keeping a tight reign on the media and politics. Kagame won nearly 99 percent of the vote in 2017 polls on a 96 percent turnout.
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