Rwanda Commemorate 29th Anniversary Of Genocide
Rwanda is commemorating today the 29th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide in which Hutu extremists killed nearly one million people, most of them Tutsis.
The civil war that started on April 7 in 1994 and lasted for 100 days, was witnessed just one day after the shooting down of the plane carrying the then president of Rwanda Juvénal Habyarimana together with the Burundian Cyprien Ntaryamira.
The leaders had come from a summit in Tanzania where they were discussing the Rwandan conflict. The 1994 genocide is one of the worst events ever witnessed in Rwanda.
The Rwandan Ministry of National Unity and Civic Engagement urged the public to respect the guidelines issued ahead of this week’s ceremonies.
“Commemorative activities will begin at the Kigali Genocide Memorial on 7 April, where over 250,000 victims are laid to rest,” said the minister, Jean Damascene Bizimana,
The themes of this year’s commemoration are “Remember-Unite-Renew”, and events will continue until 13 April, he added.
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