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Countless Rwandans also resisted the call to genocide. Some paid the ultimate price for that courage, and we honour their memory.

KIGALI, Apr 08 (IPS) - A minute of silence was observed on April 7 across Rwanda as the country held a memorial ceremony to mourn more than one million people, overwhelmingly Tutsis, who were systematically killed in the 100 days of atrocities between April and July 1994.

“Many of the countries represented here today also sent their sons and daughters to serve as peacekeepers in Rwanda. Those soldiers did not fail Rwanda, it was the international community which failed all of us, whether from contempt or cowardice." Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda

Countless Rwandans also resisted the call to genocide. Some paid the ultimate price for that courage, and we honour their memory.

April the 7th marked the 'International Day of Reflection' on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. But the genocide was preceded by decades of ethnic tensions and political instability.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame says he's concerned by what he saw as a U.S. failure to characterize the 1994 massacres as a genocide against the country’s minority Tutsis

Human-rights groups, including Freedom House and Human Rights Watch, have documented an extensive pattern of Rwandan government repression of dissidents and critics in Canada and many other countries

Qutub minar lit up in solidarity on 30th anniversary of rwandan genocide