The Belgian Peacekeepers Memorial occupies part of Camp Kigali, where ten Belgian UN soldiers were killed in the first hours of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. Ten stone pillars stand for the peacekeepers, a stark and deliberate memorial to a moment that helped trigger the withdrawal of outside forces.
It is a sober stop and best understood alongside Kigali Genocide Memorial rather than as a standalone sight. The site is small, but the story it tells is central to understanding how quickly the genocide escalated and how badly international protection failed.