Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Prince stunned by genocide memorial
PRINCE Charles looks shaken as he stares at rows of skulls – a grisly reminder of Rwanda’s genocide.
Charles was at a Catholic church which contains the remains of more than 45,000 people killed in its compound and wider area.
They were some of the 800,000 victims of the massacre of mainly Tutsi men, women and children by ruling
Hutus over just
100 days in 1994.
Three quarters of Rwanda’s minority Tutsi population died in the slaughter. Hutu militiamen also murdered moderate Hutus and others opposing their reign of terror.
The Prince of Wales, 73, at Nyamata Church Genocide Memorial, near the capital Kigali, said the world must learn the lessons of genocide. He added: “This must never happen again. We shall continue to remember.”
Earlier Charles and Camilla were shown around the
Kigali Genocide Memorial, the final resting place to 250,000 victims, and heard heartbreaking family testimonies.
Camilla bonded with survivor Uzamukunda Walida who was gang raped. She now openly discusses her experience.
The couple laid a wreath of white blooms, with a handwritten card by Charles that read: “In everlasting remembrance of those who died in the genocide against the Tutsi.”