Rwanda: Genocide museum intended to shock

The half-built genocide museum in Kigali stands bone white against the lush hills of Rwanda's capital, its unfinished windows staring out at the city. The dark interior of the memorial is as hollow as the thousands of human skulls it soon will hold. For now, they are stacked crudely in a corrugated-iron shed with row upon row of bones, neatly separated into piles of arms and legs. Several cavernous concrete tombs contain more remains of tens of thousands of Rwandans killed in the 1994 genocide, when as many as 800,000 Tutsi and Hutu moderates died in this tiny Central African country. The remains are to be sorted and put in glass display cases in the new museum, complete with tiled floors, library, video presentations and cafeteria. There will be a lengthy list of names of the dead, ages and personal details.