Rwanda remembers genocide 30 years on

KIGALI — Rwanda 's president on Sunday led commemorations to mark 30 years since the 1994 genocide that killed more than 1 million people and said the conditions that led to the slaughter would never be allowed to exist again in his country's politics.Over 100 days, starting on April 7 1994, Tutsis and moderate Hutus and were systematically massacred by Hutu extremists, led by the Rwanda n army and a militia known as the Interahamwe.

We will build the country together," Marie Louise Ayinkamiye, who was 11 during the genocide, told the audience at the arena.Ayinkamiye survived the genocide along with her mother and two siblings. Her father and other four siblings were killed.Kagame has been president since 2000 but effectively in control since his rebel force the Rwandan Patriotic Front marched into Kigali in 1994 to end the genocide. He said his country had taken great strides in the last 30 years.

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