Rwanda is a land of contradictions. Arriving at Kigale one is immediately aware that this is quintessential Africa, and yet, ‘This is not Africa as I know it!’
One of the first hints is the airport inspection for plastic bags, banned in the country for environmental reasons. This beautiful, hilly, and in parts mountainous land is spotlessly clean – almost manicured.
Quarter of a million skeletons
The contradictions have deeper roots. Visiting the Genocide Museum where a quarter of a million skeletons are buried from the massacre of a million mainly Tutsis, the greatest slaughter in such a few days ever known, one is conscious of standing in the presence of the memory of one of the most obscene manifestations of the work of the devil in human history. The one who came to steal, kill and destroy did a work there culminating in April 1994.
