Rwanda And UN Mark Genocide Anniversary, Vow ‘Never Again’
On Thursday, Rwandan President Paul Kagame laid a wreath at a memorial as the African nation remembered the 1994 genocide.
More than 800,000 Tutsis and Hutus who tried to protect them were killed.
Of those, more than 250,000 people are buried at the memorial site in the capital Kigali.
Thursday’s ceremony marked the beginning of a week of somber events.
The African Union Commission and Rwanda’s mission to the AU jointly organised a 100-day commemoration, with events scheduled from April 7 to July 3.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, in a video message, said the genocide was “deliberate, systematic — and carried out in broad daylight.”
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