Rwanda on Monday commemorated the 1994 genocide that claimed the lives of at least 800000 of us, mostly from the Tutsi community, who were massacred by the Hutu militia.
This three hundred and sixty five days’s occasion is overshadowed by the ongoing disaster in the jap DR Congo, where the Rwanda-backed M23 militia has long past on a rampage against the authorities, seizing two foremost towns of Bukavu and Goma.
In the neighborhood identified as ‘Kwibuka’, which device Remembrance Day in Kinyarwanda, this three hundred and sixty five days’s occasion marked the a centesimal anniversary since the jap African nation began commemorating the day in 1994.
On April 7, 1994, a day after the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi died in a missile attack on their airplane, the moderate Hutu prime minister of Rwanda, Agathe Uwilingiyimana, and her husband were killed by Rwandan troopers; in the 100 days that followed, Hutu extremists slaughtered a total bunch of thousands of minority Tutsi and Hutu moderates.
