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Rwanda remembers this Sunday the 800,000 victims of the genocide released in the country after the badbadination of Rwandan President, Juvenal Habyarimana, 25 years ago, and tries to prevent them from falling into oblivion.
"2019 marks the twenty-fifth commemoration of the genocide against Tutsis, known locally as Kwibuka" 25, said today the Executive Secretary of the National Commission against Genocide (CNLG), Jean-Damascene Bizimana .
"This provides an important opportunity to remember the victims, to preserve their memories and to educate them about their history and about the lessons that Rwanda has learned and the progress the country has made over the past 25 years," M added. Bizimana, evoking the current stability and prosperity. of this small African country.
Aloys Mutiribambe (left) and Jackline Mukamana cross the village of Rwimikoni, known as "Reconciliation". He was one of the Hutu paramilitary groups in 1994 and murdered 10 members of Jacline's family, the Tutsi ethnic group (EFE).
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The head of the CNLG made the remarks on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the death of Habyarimana, including the plane in which he was traveling with the president of Burundi, Cyprien Ntaryamira, was shot down by two missiles before they landed in Kigali, where they both died, of the Hutu ethnic group.
The event occurred on April 6, 1994 in the night provoked a genocide led by the Hutu majority against the Tutsi minority, confronted with a bitter historic conflict, which developed for one hundred days and cut the lives of some 800,000 people, almost all Tutsis, but also moderate Hutus.
With this memory, the commemoration of this Sunday will mobilize Rwandans in activities that will take place throughout the country, even if the epicenter of this exercise of collective memory will be in Kigali.
There, at the monument to the genocide, the president of the country, Paul Kagame, will address the Rwandan people and will precede the families who will lay wreaths of flowers. where more than 250,000 victims are buried.
Map and chronology, with key figures, on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda (AFP).
It will be "the moment to remember to honor the memory of more than a million victims, to unite ourselves by the strength and dignity of our country and to re-examine our determination to build a prosperous future for our people. future generations, "said Bizimana.
In addition, a solemn march of the Rwandan Parliament at the Amahoro National Stadium (followed by a night vigil) will be held in the afternoon as part of a program of activities that will last until April 13 and will include lectures and lectures on topics such as revisionism and denial of genocide.
Dozens of heads of state and government were invited to these events, including the French President, Emmanuel Macron, something unheard of because of Rwanda's strained relations with this country to which accused of complicity in the mbadacre.
Display of clothes of people killed during the 1994 genocide (EFE).
Since 1994, Rwanda has repeatedly accused France provide military training, weapons or technical expertise to Interahamwe Hutu militias, who played a key role in the genocide killings, although Paris denies the charges.
Macron, who will not be present, will be represented by the French legislature of Rwandan origin and president of the party The Republic in March, Hervé Berville, as the vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Rwanda, Olivier confirmed. NDUHUNGIREHE.
However, in a new attempt to clarify the facts, the French government has set up on Friday a commission of eight investigators and historians who will investigate the actions carried out by France in Rwanda during the genocide, and whose results will be used in educational programs.
The President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, and his wife Jeannette, arrive this Sunday morning to commemorate the tragic events of 1994 in Kigali (EFE).
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 engagement of the country during this period", specified the French presidency in a communique.
A French investigation in 2006 accused seven members of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a militia led by the current Rwandan head of state, Tutsi Paul Kagame, from the murder of Habyarimana, which the ruler Rwandan has always denied.
Years later, in December 2018, the judges abandoned this investigation for lack of evidence, which (according to Rwanda) it was based on false testimony to deliberately divert the attention of the world from the role that France supposedly played in this event.
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