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Gatwaro Genocide Memorial in Karongi District. File
Kwibuka

April 25, 1994: As Genocide raged, the world looked away

Friday, April 25, 2025
Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta.
Religion

Rwandan Catholics to hold requiem mass for Pope Francis

Thursday, April 24, 2025
On April 24, atrocities were committed throughout the former Gitarama Prefecture—now the districts of Muhanga, Ruhango, and Kamonyi.
Kwibuka

April 24, 1994: Women raped, victims burned alive in Kabgayi massacres

Thursday, April 24, 2025
A genocide memorial for former students, staff of the Universite Nationale du Rwanda in Butare.
Kwibuka

April 23, 1994: Lured to safety, slaughtered in cold blood

Wednesday, April 23, 2025
(L-R) Alphonse Muleefu, Principal of UR College of Arts and Social Sciences, Minister of Education Joseph Nsengimana and University of Rwanda Vice Chancellor Muganga during commemoration event at the Huye campus on Tuesday, April 22. Courtesy
Kwibuka

Education minister urges UR to drive unity, transformation

Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Ruhango District has embarked on building a Genocide Museum expected to be complete by 2026. Courtesy
Kwibuka

Ruhango Genocide Museum to be completed by 2026

Monday, April 21, 2025
April 20, 1994, was the day Queen Rosalie Gicanda was murdered in Butare, as the Genocide against the Tutsi raged across the country.
Kwibuka

Genocide Timeline; April 20, 1994: Queen Gicanda murdered, massacres escalate in Butare

Sunday, April 20, 2025
A resident exhuming the bodies of the victims from a mass grave. Today, on April 19, 1994, Tutsi in Kamonyi were forced to dig their own graves, Sindikubwabo mobilises the public to kill. FILE
Kwibuka

Today on April 19, 1994: Tutsi in Kamonyi forced to dig their own graves, Sindikubwabo mobilises public to kill

Saturday, April 19, 2025
On April 18, 1994, the Interahamwe militia continued targeting and killing Tutsi using guns, grenades, wooden clubs, and machetes
Kwibuka

April 18,1994: Swamps run red as leaders, police intensify Tutsi killings

Friday, April 18, 2025
Béatrice Munyenyezi was convicted by the Huye Intermediate Court on April 12 last year on four counts. murder as a crime of genocide, complicity in genocide, incitement to commit genocide, and complicity in rape.
Crime

Genocide convict Béatrice Munyenyezi’s appeal trial to resume in May

Friday, April 18, 2025
On April 17, 1994, several Tutsi, including patients, their caretakers, and other people who had taken refuge at Kigali University Teaching Hospital (CHUK), were attacked during the Genocide against the Tutsi. Courtesy
Kwibuka

April 17, 1994: Rwanda hospitals become sites of genocidal slaughters

Thursday, April 17, 2025
At the end of the First Republic, PARMEHUTU relied on a small group of people from Gitarama who were among President Kayibanda’s faithful friends.

How Kayibanda’s regime of divisionism destroyed itself

Wednesday, April 16, 2025