Having transferred to the Gorillas hotel, we take the short ride to the outskirts of Kigali to see the two Genocide sites.
There has been much written about what happened in Rwanda in 1994. Furthermore little can be written in such a format as this blog to convey the variety of emotions a visit to such places invoke. Therefore we have simply posted some pictures and hope to tell you about it when we see you.
Martin says...It was a beautiful ride out to these sites just south of Kigali. The scenery was so beautiful it is hard to believe such atrocities took place here. It was an intensely moving experience and a profound mixture of horror, pity, disbelief and in a sense shame that any human beings could be so cruel and vicious to other human beings...quite unbelievable. We had a long chat with a survivor who took us round and told us his own story...In his particular case the killers were in his village for 3 days killing everyone in the most horrific ways. In the other site the killers came at 9.00 a.m. and were still slaughtering people including tiny children at 3.00pm in a very small community....unthinkable. The clothes are so movng, the only remnants of people slaughtered in the genocide.
Big push out of Rwanda and into Tanzania begins tomorrow, we are hoping to get to Kahama (I think it s called) Around 300 miles.
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