PARIS, France - Four memorials to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda of more than 800,000 people, mainly Tutsi, were added to UNESCO's World Heritage list on Wednesday, the UN cultural body said.
The sites at Nyamata, Murambi, Gisozi and Bisesero commemorating the mass killings were"just inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list", the organisation posted on X .
Skulls, bone fragments, torn clothing and images of piled up corpses confront visitors to the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Gisozi, the final resting place of around 250,000 victims.Each year more are buried as new graves are uncovered around the country, with remains also housed at a former Catholic church at Nyamata, a school complex at Murambi and a memorial at Bisesero built in 1998.
Its chapel now houses the clothing and the rosaries worn by the victims along with the weapons used by the perpetrators.
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