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Vice president Hamid Ansari pays floral tributes at Kigali genocide memorial in Rwanda

Vice president Hamid Ansari paid floral tributes at Kigali genocide memorial in Rwanda in the memory of innocent people including women and children.Today, he will meet the president of senate Barnard Makuza and the president of Rwanda Paul Kagame.<br/><br/>The Kigali genocide memorial is the final resting place for more than 2 lakh 50 thousands victims of the genocide against the tutsi in Rwanda in 1994.the memorial was opened in 2004. The Kigali Genocide Memorial includes three permanent exhibitions, the largest of which documents the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. <br/><br/>There is also a children's memorial and an exhibition on the history of genocidal violence around the world. The Education Centre, Gardens, and Genocide Archive of Rwanda form part of a meaningful tribute to those who perished, and provide a powerful educational tool for visitors. <br/><br/>The second exhibition is called 'Wasted Lives' because some of the massacres documented there have not been recognised as genocide by international law. The atrocities examined include Namibia, Armenia, Cambodia and the Balkans as well as the Holocaust. The Children's Room is dedicated to the memory of children killed in the Genocide against the Tutsi. This section shows how a generation's dreams were stolen by genocide

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