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Hotel Reviews | Hotel Ratings | Resort Reviews | TravelPost.com. The best bits of the world's greatest journeys -Times Onlin. Blog Posts - Glimpse - Your Stories From Abroad. Photo: Tonykrinfo AT THE END OF A RUTTED RED-DIRT ROAD, which snakes along intensely green, cultivated hillsides past makeshift houses and produce stands piled high with plantains, sits the high hill where one of the worst acts during Rwanda’s genocide was committed. From Murambi there is a sweeping view of Rwanda’s southern countryside. At its rounded top, a series of one-story rectangular buildings stand in neat rows. These were intended to be classrooms for the Murambi Technical School, a facility that was never completed. Purple is the color of genocide commemoration. Our bus pulled up in front of an enormous purple flag hanging from the exterior wall of the main building. A young guide, sporting a bright red Rwanda Development Board polo shirt, welcomed our group and gave us a scripted yet impassioned briefing of what went on here, and what we were about to encounter.

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