Rwanda mourns the dead, 25 years since the genocide

Prisoners listen during a genocide commemoration ceremony at Nyarugenge Prison in Kigali, Rwanda, April 7 2019. Picture: ANDREW RENNEISEN/GETTY IMAGES/AFP

They are only some of those killed by the genocidal Hutu forces, members of the old army and militia forces called the Interahamwe, that began their bloody campaign of death on April 7 1994, the day after the assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu.The killings lasted until Kagame, then 36, led the mainly Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front into Kigali on July 4, ending the slaughter and taking control of the devastated country.

A quarter-of-a-century on, the East African nation has recovered economically, but the trauma still casts a dark shadow. Kagame has kept an authoritarian hold as he steers the nation through economic recovery. Growth in 2018 was a heady 7.2%, according to the African Development Bank. At the ceremony, France is represented by Herve Berville, a 29-year old Rwandan-born member of parliament in Paris.

Macron is not the only notable absentee; former ally Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is also not attending, amid accusations by Kigali that Uganda is supporting Rwandan rebels. France’s parliament interviewed French political and military leaders in 1998, but the resulting report drew no conclusions beyond saying members of the military had made “errors of judgment”.

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