(7 Apr 2024)
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Kigali, Rwanda - 07 April 2024
1. Military band playing a tune
2. Various of Rwanda President Paul Kagame, First Lady Jeanette Kagame arriving to lay wreath at Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre
3. President of Israel Isaac Herzog (left) and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy (right)
4. Various of presidents
5. Leaders walking to site of 'Flame of Remembrance'
6. President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa walking alongside former U.S president Bill Clinton
7. Kagame and his wife lighting flame of remembrance
STORYLINE:
Rwanda President Paul Kagame led a sombre commemoration ceremony in the capital Kigali on Sunday on the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide.
Foreign visitors included the leaders of South Africa, Congo, Ethiopia, Central African Republic and Tanzania, as well as Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
Former US and French presidents Bill Clinton and Nicolas Sarkozy also attended.
Kagame lit a flame of remembrance and laid a wreath at a memorial site holding the remains of 250,000 genocide victims.
The killings were ignited when a plane carrying then-President Juvénal Habyarimana, a Hutu, was shot down over Kigali.
The Tutsi were blamed for downing the plane and killing the president.
The Tutsi were then targeted by extremist Hutu in massacres that lasted over 100 days in 1994. Some moderate Hutus who tried to protect members of the Tutsi minority were also killed.
An estimated 800,000 people were killed.
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