Piotor Sevinski the head of Auschwitz Birkenau state Museum in Poland has visited Rwanda where he has been taken around the Murambi genocide memorial site.
Sevinski who says that although he head a state museum on genocide in Poland, he was shocked by the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi in 1994.
He said he had been hearing about the Rwandan genocide from media but it was shocking to see for himself the plight of Rwandans then in 1994.
Over a million Lives were lost in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide against ethnic Tutsi.
At the museum he saw weapons, tools and other weaponry used during the genocide. He also saw cloths and victims skulls and other preserved bodies of victims at the memorial site.
Sevinski said he couldn’t find words to describe what he saw at the Murambi genocide memorial site.
He said there should be modern ways of preserving the items and bodies at the memorial site so that future generations can find them in better condition.
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