Gianni Infantino In Rwanda: FIFA President Twists History

Thierry Ishimwe stares at you from his cradle. He looks frail. He is described as a small and weak baby who cried a lot. Irene, 6, and Uwamwezi, 7, feature energetically in a photo with descriptions of what they loved. The sisters shared a doll. They died when a grenade was thrown into their shower. Thierry was killed in his mother’s arms with a machete.

The children’s room at the Genocide Memorial in Kigali is perhaps the most harrowing part of the monument that is touching and respectfully attempts to encompass the scale of the 100-day atrocity and inhumanity in the early 90s that killed an estimated 800,000 Tutsi. It leaves visitors silent, pensive, and introspective.