Rwanda Marks 25 Years Since Genocide.
African Union chief Moussa Faki, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, his wife Jeannette , and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker light a remembrance flame for the 25th Commemoration of the 1994 Genocide at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Kigali, Rwanda, on April 7, 2019. Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFPRwanda on Sunday began 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.
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.After lighting the flame, accompanied by his wife Jeanette, African Union chief Moussa Faki and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Kagame is expected to make a speech.
For many survivors, forgiveness remains difficult when the bodies of their loved ones have not been found and many killers are still free. French President Emmanuel Macron is not attending but expressed his “solidarity with the Rwandan people and his compassion to the victims and their families” in a statement Sunday.
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