Kagame: “The memorial before us is powerful, because it sets the truth in stone and protects it from the heartlessness of time, by instructing the living. It is not a validation, because none is needed.

“But it will stand as a mark of respect for the dignity of Rwandans and our history.” President Kagame Inauguration of Monument in Paris honouring the victims of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi.