From 7 April to mid-July 1994, on the hills of Rwanda, more than a million Tutsi men, women and children perished in the name of a political utopia aimed at rebuilding the racial purity of a Hutu nation rid of a minority portrayed as sneaky and harmful. Imagining that their very existence was threatened, the Hutu extremists launched an extremely effective campaign of massacres on 7 April 1994.
On the occasion of the 30th commemoration of the genocide of the Tutsi, the exhibition attempts to make intelligible an event still too often subjected to reductive readings. Product of the long history of our tragic twentieth century, it has responded to specific political logics, themselves backed by a racist ideology inscribed in the colonial and post-colonial past of Rwanda.
Committed for many years in the actions of transmission of the history and memory of the genocide of the Tutsi, the Shoah Memorial intends to affirm its support for the victims and the survivors at this time of commemoration.
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Visible Allée des Justes at the Shoah Memorial in Paris
