ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the post-genocide Rwandan government's approach to its architectural heritage can also be understood as a form of 'past mastering' or re-appropriation and recycling for cultural renewal. All the national post-conflict heritage sites have ostensibly been created by the civil war and genocide but can also be said to have been re-appropriated and recycled purposefully into something new for post-genocide development in Rwanda. Post-conflict heritage management of archaeological and architectural sites in Rwanda has received little academic attention. The civil war and genocide in Rwanda were so extensive that almost all the country can be considered a post-conflict heritage site made up of hundreds of thousands of different violent events that took place from 1990 to 1994. These include the genocide massacre sites of Murambi, Nyarubuye, Ntarama, Nyamata and Bisesero, and the Presidential Palace, where the remains of the plane crash that triggered the genocide can be seen.
