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They have seen and heard about many things during their travels, but on the first visit to Rwanda by members of the British royal family it was clear that the Prince of Wales and his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, were deeply affected by what they were told about the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi population in 1994.
The couple are in Rwanda for the summit of Commonwealth leaders, which was postponed in 2021 and 2020 because of the pandemic.
At the Genocide Memorial in the capital, Kigali, they saw photographs of some of the estimated 800,000 victims of the genocide. Many were children, hacked to death, tortured or killed by grenades.
Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, is seen during a visit of the Kigali Genocide Memorial, Kigali, Rwanda on June 22, 2022 during a visit.
It was a sombre looking prince who went on to the Nyamata Church Genocide Memorial outside Kigali. It is said that in the course of two days some 10,000 people were massacred there.
“We must ensure it never happens again,” the prince said to one official.
