Never again: Rwanda honours those killed in genocide 25 years ago

KIGALI - Rwanda began a week of solemn ceremonies on Sunday to commemorate the lives of 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus murdered during the Rwandan genocide, a three-month killing spree that began 25 years ago.

“We are far better Rwandans than we were. But we can be even better still. We are the last people in the world who should succumb to complacency.” At Gisozi on Sunday, popular Rwandan artists sang songs including Turabunamira twiyubaka, meaning “honouring them as we rebuild”. “I named my children after all my siblings that died,” Samuel Dusengiyumva told the emotional crowd, before praising the actions of the Rwandan Patriotic Front , a Tutsi-led rebel movement led by Kagame that ended the genocide. “I thank the RPF army that rescued us as the rest of world did nothing.”

As many as 10,000 people were killed daily. Seventy percent of the minority Tutsi population was wiped out, and over 10% of the total Rwandan population. “The ruling party has decided to adopt dictatorship from early days after the genocide as they said they were protecting the national sovereignty, but now I feel that should end,” opposition figure Victoire Ingabire told Reuters.

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