TODO ESTÁ GUARDADO EN LA MEMORIA
SITIOS DE MEMORIA - Rwanda
1.- New Kigali sky line, from the esplanade of Kigali Genocide Memorial. August 2019 @Marcelo Arganaraz
2.- Kigali Genocide Memorial, is a permanent memorial to those who fell victim to the 1994 genocide and serves as a place in which survivors can bury their families and friends who were killed during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The remains of over 250,000 people are interred there. August 2019
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3.- Nyanza Memorial Centre, is home to over 96,000 and above victims who were killed in Eto kicukiro compound and t´s surroundings their remains were brought to nyanza genocide memorial to be buried in honor. All of these victims suffered to their death after being abandoned by UN Peacekeepers in what was known as kicukiro technical school(ETO) where they had gone seeking refuge. August 2019
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4.- Kigali Genocide Memorial, Shamim in a memorial room, with photographs that families and friends of the people who were killed during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, gave to the museum. August 2019 @Marcelo Arganaraz
5.- Kigali Genocide Memorial, weapons that militias used for to kill the Tutsis during the 1994 Genocide,Tutsis were considered like cockroaches no bullets were needed to kill them. August 2019 @Marcelo Arganaraz
6.- Kigali Genocide Memorial, Shamim paying tribute to the 1994 Rwanda genocide victims, at main esplanade. August 2019 @Marcelo Arganaraz
7.- Caraes Memorial Site, is located in NDERA BROTHERS OF CHARITY PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL, the site is home to 32,000 victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, some of these victims were 42 patients,12 doctors; people who came from different areas who sought refuge in the house of GOD that was protected by the UN troops who came to protect the brothers of charity but were killed after the UN troops left them in the hands of militias. August 2019 @Marcelo Arganaraz
8.- Saint Famille Church Memory Site, Shamim 24 years old, she is part of the generation that was born after the Genocide, her family fled to Zaire (actual Republic Democratic of Congo) during the accontecements. August 2019 @Marcelo Arganaraz
9.- Ruhanga Genocide Memorial, is located at the former Ruhanga Anglican Church and has a mass grave inside the church, over 25,000 persons were killed at the church compound where they sought refuge, this is the only church in Rwanda that was turned into a memorial centre. August 2019 @Marcelo Arganaraz
10.- Caraes Memorial Site, Murenzi Theresphore 39years old:
¨ I am a genocide survivor, I had a family of 9 siblings and 2 parents, they were killed in the 1994 Genocide. I am the only survivor, when the Genocide started I was 11 years. Now I am a psychiatric counselor, I have a family, I can not forget what happened but I strive for a better future, while keeping the memory of my loved ones alive. I am a living testimony that there is light at the end of the tunnel. My message is that every one should have the thirst to learn what happened here in Rwanda so that it does not happen anywhere else in the world, share with the world.¨ August 2019 @Marcelo Arganaraz
ALL IS STORED AT THE MEMORY
SITES OF MEMORY
Walter Benjamin says:
"There is no document of culture that is not at the same time document of barbarism.”
"There is no document of culture that is not at the same time document of barbarism.”
Throughout history, the situation of people suffering persecution, torture, detention, jails, in extreme violence in any of its manifestations, is a constant.
Independently of geographical, historical, social or political contexts; the systematic violation of the most elementary human rights, happens in the course of the chronology of humanity.
Independently of geographical, historical, social or political contexts; the systematic violation of the most elementary human rights, happens in the course of the chronology of humanity.
Memory is a form of resistance.
In different geographical spaces, and throughout history, more or less visible sites are located; in which humanity exercises its schemes of oppression and torture.
Nowadays, and perhaps as a reflection of a dark age of humanity, the same sites, the same schemes are reproduced ...
Witness the time in which we live, approaching places where, although invisible, are present, the "nobody" is a form of memory ...
Now we approach to the Rwanda Memorial Sites of Genocide.
And we reflect about this sites are and we have stored at the memory ...
And we reflect about this sites are and we have stored at the memory ...
