Today, Rwandans will gather in their respective villages to pay homage to heroes of different times in the country’s history who died in service of their country. The day will be marked under the theme, "Our Heroism, our Dignity,” and the same theme is expected to be maintained for years to come as the country seeks to instill heroic values among citizens.

At the national level, leaders are expected to gather at the National Heroes’ Mausoleum in Remera to lay wreaths in honour of national heroes.

Members of the Rwanda Defence Jazz Band play in honour of national heroes during last year’s Heroes’ Day celebrations.

A monument at parliament depicting heroic acts of fighters of RPF-Inkotanyi during the liberation struggle

Major General Fred Rwigema is one of the heroes interred at the National Heroes’ Mausoleum in Remera. 

A signpost with names of the seven students of Nyange Secondary School in Ngororero District who died in an attack by inflitrators in 1997.

Classrooms of Ecole Secondaire de Nyange were rehabilitated by government in parternship with Nyange catholic parish.

The final resting place of Imanzi Hero, Maj Gen. Fred Gisa Rwigema.

The graves of two former students of ES Nyange Valens Ndemeye and Marie Chantal  Mujawamahoro.

Some of Inyange Heroes at a past event.

Survivors of the March 18, 1997 nighttime attack on ES Nyange school in Ngororero District lay wreaths on the grave of one of their former classmates, Valens Ndemeye.

Parents of Imena Hero Marie Chantal Mujawamahoro lay wreath on the grave of their daughter

A view of the National Heroes’ Mausoleum in Remera, Kigali.