Rwanda will remember its genocide where they murdered 800,000 people

Rwanda will remember tomorrow the victims of the genocide that took place 25 years ago in this country in west-central Africa. In less than 100 days, about 800,000 people were murdered, most of them belonging to the Tutsi ethnic minority and moderate Hutu.

The killings were triggered after the death of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, whose plane was shot down on April 6, 1994, while the president was traveling with Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira.

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According to investigations, the plane was shot down by two missiles before landing in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.

For this reason, in the so-called Genocide Monument, President Paul Kagame will deliver a speech tomorrow to the country, while the families of the victims will lay wreaths of flowers where more than 250,000 people will be buried.

It will be "the moment to honor the memory of more than a million victims, to unite through the strength and dignity of our country and to reconsider our determination to build a prosperous future." for future generations, "said the executive secretary of the National Commission. for the fight against genocide (CNLG), Jean-Damascène Bizimana.

Sending to the EFE news agency, the official explained that the ceremony was an "important occasion to remember the victims, to preserve their memory and to make known their history, the lessons learned by Rwanda and the progress made by the country over the last 25 years ". .

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In addition, in the afternoon, the Rwandan Parliament will visit Amahoro National Stadium – followed by one night – as part of a program of activities that will last until the end of the day. to April 13th.

Dozens of heads of state and government were invited to these events, including French President Emmanuel Macron, although Rwanda accused France of complicity with the mbadacre for providing military training, weapons or technical expertise to Hutu militia.

Although Macron does not attend the ceremonies, the president will be represented by the French legislature of Rwandan origin and president of the party The Republic in March (LRM), Hervé Berville, said the vice-minister of Foreign Affairs from Rwanda, Olivier Nduhungirehe.

However, President Macron created Friday a commission of eight researchers and historians who will investigate the actions of France during the genocide, the results of which will be used in educational programs.

The group of experts "will have the task of consulting all the archives of France related to the genocide (…) to badyze the role and the commitment of the country during this period", declared the French presidency in a statement.

In 2006, an investigation by the French government accused seven members of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), led by the current Rwandan head of state, Tutsi Kagame, of having murdered Habyarimana, a charge that the Rwandan leader has always denied.

Twelve years later, however, the judges abandoned this investigation for lack of evidence, which, according to Rwanda, was based on false testimony, in order to divert the attention of the world from the role that France supposedly played. in this genocide.