President Paul Kagame addressed dignitaries and world leaders who had gathered in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, to commemorate the bloodshed.
Kigame said Rwanda was completely humbled by the magnitude of loss.
On April 7 in 1994, extremists from the Hutu ethnic group launched a one hundred-day killing spree, in which members of the Tutsi minority and Hutu moderates were slaughtered.
The mainly Tutsi forces who took power following the genocide were alleged to have killed thousands of Hutu people in Rwanda in retaliation.
Kagame and a group of dignitaries placed wreathes on mass graves at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, where more than two hundred and fifty thousand victims are believed to be buried.
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