KIGALI - Employees from the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion, Tourism and Cooperatives (MINICOM), Friday, visited the Genocide Exhibition at Petit Stade in Remera, a Kigali suburb.

The delegation headed by the Minister Monique Nsanzabaganwa, was taken around the exhibition rooms where they were taken through the paces of how the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi was carried out.

Nsanzabaganwa said that they visited the exhibition to know the truth about what occurred during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

"It was also to enable us to live with that experience in order to be inspired and more committed to work hard towards redeveloping our country and to prevent any other atrocities like the Genocide,” Nzanzabaganwa said.

She revealed that her ministry has a long term liaison with 30 child-headed families of Genocide survivors living in Nyarubuye in Kirehe District.

The Minister said the families have been facilitated to form various income generating cooperatives.

Nsanzabaganwa added that officials from her ministry have been visiting the children during this commemoration period,in order to see how far they have gone in redeveloping themselves through various ongoing projects.

She pointed out that the ministry is also planning to organise an event to remember its former employees killed during the Genocide.

The Genocide exhibition was organised by the National Commission for the fight against Genocide (CNLG) as part of the preparations for the 17th commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi scheduled to end on April 12.

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