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Camp Kigali was a Rwandan military base where ten Belgian UN peacekeepers were killed on 7 April 1994 while guarding then-Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana. The Belgian government opened this memorial on the site in 2000: ten stone columns, each representing one soldier, with horizontal cuts marking his age. The bullet-marked building where they died now holds a small exhibition.
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The definitive historical site honoring the victims of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi — free entry, gardens, mass graves, deeply moving.
KIMIHURURAInside the Parliament building — a detailed history of the RPA's campaign to stop the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. The exterior still bears real shelling marks.
NYARUGENGEThe preserved 1907 residence of Dr. Richard Kandt, Kigali's first German colonial resident — pre-colonial life, colonial history, natural exhibits.