On the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the 1994 genocide, the nation will come together in mourning.
Rwanda on Sunday begins 100 days of mourning for more than 800,000 people slaughtered in a genocide that shocked the world, a quarter of a century on from the day it began.
Clothes of those who killed during the 1994 genocide are hung at one of the excavation sites in the suburbs of Kigali.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.
Kagame will then preside over a vigil at the country's main football ground. The Amahoro National Stadium -whose name means"peace" in Rwanda's Kinyarwanda language - was used by the UN during the genocide to protect thousands of people of the Tutsi minority from being massacred on the streets outside.In past years, ceremonies have triggered painful flashbacks for some in the audience, with crying, shaking, screaming and fainting amid otherwise quiet vigils.
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 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.
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