KIGALI: President Paul Kagame said Sunday that Rwandans had become a family again, 25 years after more than 800,000 people were slaughtered in a genocide that shocked the world.
"Our people have carried an immense weight with little or no complaint. This has made us better and more united than ever before," Kagame said.The killings lasted until Kagame, then 36, led the mainly Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front into Kigali on Jul 4, ending the slaughter and taking control of the devastated country.Kagame will later preside over a vigil at the country's main football ground.
Kagame has kept an authoritarian hold as he steers the small, landlocked East African nation through economic recovery. Growth in 2018 was a heady 7.2 per cent, according to the African Development Bank .Former colonial ruler Belgium is sending Prime Minister Charles Michel. At the ceremony, France is represented by Herve Berville, a 29-year old Rwandan-born member of parliament in Paris.
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