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President of Hungary ‘deeply touched’ by Kigali Genocide Memorial visit

On 16th July, Hungary’s President Katalin Novák visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial to pay respects to the victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The tour began with a laying of wreaths on the burial place where 250,000 victims of the genocide are laid to rest. President Novák was then guided through the museum, [...]

2023-08-04T05:33:34+01:00July 17th, 2023|Memorial|0 Comments

Malala Yousafzai: educate about genocides so we don’t repeat history

On 15th July, the Aegis Trust hosted education activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai at the Kigali Genocide Memorial. Starting her visit with a short film detailing the Memorial’s history and its significance to survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, Malala then laid a wreath at the burial place where 250,000 [...]

2023-08-04T05:27:28+01:00July 16th, 2023|Memorial|0 Comments

Zambia’s President Hichilema visits Kigali Genocide Memorial

At the Kigali Genocide Memorial on 21 June 2023, President of the Republic of Zambia, H.E. Hakainde Hichilema together with his delegation of public and private sector officials paid respects to the victims of the Genocide against the Tutsi. The tour began with a laying of wreaths at mass graves where 250,000 victims of the [...]

2023-06-27T14:02:49+01:00June 22nd, 2023|Memorial, Uncategorised|0 Comments

Romesh Ranganathan visits Kigali Genocide Memorial

On 16th June, renowned British-Sri Lankan comedian and actor Romesh Ranganathan visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial to pay tribute to the victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. He was guided through the Memorial’s permanent exhibitions, and laid a wreath at mass graves where 250,000 victims of the Genocide have their final [...]

2023-06-28T12:47:57+01:00June 18th, 2023|Memorial|0 Comments

Senegalese captain honoured for heroism during Genocide against the Tutsi

At the Kigali Genocide Memorial on Wednesday 31 May, officials from both Rwanda and Senegal, members of the diplomatic corps in Rwanda, representatives from the Senegalese diaspora in Rwanda and friends of Senegal came together to mark the second ‘Mbaye Diagne Day’ – an annual day of remembrance for the heroism of Captain Mbaye Diagne, [...]

2023-06-07T11:04:35+01:00June 1st, 2023|Memorial|0 Comments

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister gifts Holodomor survivor embroidery to Kigali Genocide Memorial

On 25 May, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial to pay respects to the victims of the Genocide against the Tutsi. His visit began with a laying of wreaths on the burial place where 250,000 victims of the genocide are laid to rest. He was then guided through the memorial exhibitions [...]

2023-06-07T10:58:30+01:00May 27th, 2023|Memorial|0 Comments

Kwibuka 29 observed at Kigali Genocide Memorial

Today, April 7th, the start of Kwibuka 29 was marked at the Kigali Genocide Memorial as the President and First Lady of Rwanda lit the flame of remembrance which will burn for the next 100 days, recalling the 100 days of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994 in which a million people [...]

2023-04-07T21:19:05+01:00April 7th, 2023|Memorial|0 Comments

BAFTA-nominated film inspired by Kigali Genocide Memorial

Jo Ingabire’s BAFTA-nominated short BAZIGAGA is a fictional drama about a pastor and his daughter seeking refuge with a traditional healer during the Genocide against the Tutsi, which Jo herself survived as a young child. Bazigaga, the eponymous heroine, keeps the Interahamwe militia from her door by playing on their superstitions that she may be [...]

2023-02-23T13:33:06+00:00February 15th, 2023|Memorial|0 Comments

Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 at the Kigali Genocide Memorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhPNN1ffSvM Today, on the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, dignitaries and survivors of the Genocide against the Tutsi gathered at the Kigali Genocide Memorial to commemorate the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, to honour all victims of Nazi persecution, and to remember all whose lives have been destroyed through genocide [...]

2023-02-23T12:04:10+00:00January 27th, 2023|Memorial|0 Comments

Barbados PM Mia Mottley visits Kigali Genocide Memorial

The Aegis Trust welcomed Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley of Barbados at the Kigali Genocide Memorial yesterday, where she came to pay respects to the more than one million victims of the Genocide against the Tutsi. Accompanied by Rwanda’s Minister of National Unity and Civic Engagement, Hon. Dr Bizimana Jean Damascene together with Rwanda's Minister of ICT & [...]

2022-11-11T14:08:09+00:00November 11th, 2022|Memorial|0 Comments