Visit other memorial sites, CNLG advises

THE National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG) has advised that should visit other Genocide Memorial sites instead of just focusing on Kigali Genocide Memorial Centrel at Gisozi. According to CNLG Media Officer, Gaspard Gasasira,, many institutions and individuals have focused on visiting the Kigali centre leaving out other memorial sites in the country. “At the national level, we have about six Genocide memorial sites, but you find people travelling many kilometres to visit Gisozi Memorial Centre in Kigali,” Gasasira said yesterday. “The major intention of visiting these Genocide memorial sites is to get realities of the 1994 Genocide, and some of these sites in the country have more evidences”. “Those upcountry memorial sites carry evidences like clothes and blood that show you the reality of how Tutsis were killed, resisted and even some Hutus rescuing them,” Gasasira added. He said there are over 300 District memorial sites including Ntarama, Bisesero, Nyarubuye and Murambi others yet to be built. “It does not make sense to travel all the way to Kigali by-passing other Genocide sites in several parts of the country,” Freddy Mutanguha, the Director of Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre told The Sunday Times. According to Mutanguha, local visitors to the site make up 60% and and the rest are foreigners. “Some people were not willing to visit the sites because they were either guily or feared to become traumatized, but as time went by, they got used to it, learnt how to live with the challenges and made it their responsibility,” Mutanguha noted. Ends