Since 2004 IBUKA organization, an organization created by survivor’s of the 1994 Tutsi genocide, are planning to build three genocide memorial sites in Uganda to commemorate thousands of Tutsi victims that were washed up the river Nile.
Idelphonse Karanga in charge of Rwandan national committee for the fight against genocide told reporters that with the help of the Rwandan government, IBUKA and the RNC are working to open three different memorials on the shores of lake Victoria in Uganda.
The three districts chosen are Kasensero, Gigolo and Lambu, where over ten thousand bodies were discovered.
The memorial centers commence construction by the end of 2012. The sites will be a replica of Memorial structures of the original centers in Rwanda.
Beginning with the rooms of world history, where one is telling the history of the genocide and the other depicting the history of the genocide, as well as rooms such as the room which is dedicated to the thousands of innocent children whom perished during the genocide.
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