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Every year on April 7, Rwandans and the global community reflect on the history of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, one of the most tragic events in modern history.

The unfulfilled promise of 'never again': Reflections on Rwanda

Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Eight bodies of victims were laid at Kibungo Genocide Memorial site after being discovered in Remera and Kibungo sectors. Officials urged residents to provide information of unburied victims for a dignfied burial.
Kwibuka

April 14–15, 1994, Kibungo’s 'darkest days' during Genocide against the Tutsi

Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire, a Canadian military officer who was force commander of the UN peacekeeping mission for Rwanda.
Kwibuka

April 12, 1994: ‘The signal for genocidaires to move toward the apocalypse’

Saturday, April 12, 2025
The Minister of National Unity and Civic Engagement, Jean-Damascène Bizimana delivers his remarks
Kwibuka

Bizimana details how Belgium fostered culture of impunity, laid groundwork for 1994 Genocide

Saturday, April 12, 2025
Marie-Rose Hodari, a Genocide survivor, gives her testimony during the Our Past Initiative event on Wednesday, April 9, at Nyanza Genocide Memorial in Kicukiro District. PHOTO BY OLIVIER MUGWIZA
Kwibuka

Nyanza survivor: We were ready to die, but Inkotanyi saved us

Friday, April 11, 2025
Thousands of Tutsi men, women and children were abandoned at ETO Kicukiro on April 11, 1994, leaving them at the mercy of Interahamwe militia. Internet photo
Kwibuka

Genocide timeline – April 11, 1994: Belgian withdrawal opens door to massacres in Kicukiro

Friday, April 11, 2025
Minister of Youth and Arts Dr Abdallah Utumatwishima speaks during Our Past Initiative event held on April 9, at Nyanza Genocide Memorial in Kicukiro District. Photo by Dan Kwizera
Kwibuka

Genocide ideologues, denialists targeting less informed youth, warns Minister

Friday, April 11, 2025
The Minister of National Unity and Civic Engagement, Jean-Damascène Bizimana, speaks during the 31st commemoration ceremony at Kigali Genocide Memorial on Monday, April 7. PHOTO BY DAN KWIZERA
Kwibuka

Speech by the Minister of National Unity and Civic Engagement at the 31st commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi

Tuesday, April 08, 2025
Jean-Michel Marlaud, France’s ambassador to Rwanda in 1994 and Colonel Theoneste Bagosora

Genocide: Was Marlaud France’s envoy or Bagosora’s puppet?

Tuesday, April 08, 2025
An armored vehicle operated by the members of the South African battalion, transports Alan Doss, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) and his delegation, through a village street to their Helicopter Operating Base after visiting a camp of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Pinga. 21/Feb/2009. UN Photo/Marie Frechon. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/

The bad and the ugly of the UN in the Great Lakes region

Friday, April 04, 2025
Picture dates 1993, when President Paul Kagame, then RPA/F Inkotanyi Chairman of the High Command briefed RPA battalion of 600 battle-hardened soldiers, before they departed to Kigali on 28.12.1993.

Embracing the values and culture of heroism

Monday, March 24, 2025
Christopher Trott, the former UK Special Representative for Sudan and South Sudan during a tour of Kigali Genocide Memorial Museum. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana

Pan-Africanism and the unmasking of neo-colonial lies

Friday, March 21, 2025