Angelique Mukabukizi was among the few survivors of the attack here. At the time, she was a young mother. She survived only because her attackers did not know she was alive. They thought she was stabbed to death.
There is evidence of the attack on her neck and arms. She tells her story to the visitors from the United States. She feels it is important to tell the world what happened in this place.
If someone comes to visit the memorial and asks me for the testimony, she says, I do it confidently. It is like showing him the history of Rwanda. We cannot hide it and if he understands it can be a good lesson for him and the rest of the world.
The Americans know the importance of learning from the past. They are part of a delegation from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. The museum tells visitors about the systematic repression and killing of Jews by Germany and its allies during World War II.
Michael Abramovitz is the director of the Center for the Prevention of Genocide. He says one of the main purposes of memorials is to make sure history is not forgotten.
We really want to focus part of our efforts at the museum on raising awareness, raising consciousness about the fact that genocide did not end after the Holocaust, sadly, and that we still have a long way to go to realizing our collective vision of never again.
He says visiting the memorial sites in Rwanda is a different experience from visiting a museum.
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