Rwanda Remembrance Genocide Day 7th April 2008
''Twibuke Jenoside duhashya ingengabitekerezo yayo;
twite ku bacitseku icumu; kandi duharanire iterambere.''
"Let us remember Genocide while we guard against its ideology.
Let us look after survivors and the same time strive for development."
As part of the Capital of Culture year, Liverpool hosted the Holocaust Memorial Day in January. We also want to remember other cases of genocide.
Please take time to read the pages here and leave a message to express your commitment to remembering those who were killed in the Rwandan Genocide and to ensuring further genocides do not happen.
On April 6, 1994, and for the next hundred days, up to 800,000 Tutsis were killed by Hutu militia using clubs and machetes, with as many as 10,000 killed each day.
During the genocide thousands of children were brutally tortured and killed. Anyone who has lost a child, the pain, anger and sorrow does not become any less sharp. When you lose a child, especially if it is brutally tortured and killed, it is as if a part of you dies too.
Most of the surviving parents in Rwanda lost more than one child; some parents saw their children being tortured and killed. They had to keep their grief to themselves and it overwhelmed their lives.