Remembering Rwanda's darkest hundred days and the thousands who died

Ten days after the beginning of the genocide, some 160 000 Rwandan refugees set up an improvised camp 10kms to the north of border town of Goma in the east of DRC. © Pascal Guyot / AFP

Rwanda today begins commemorating the 29th anniversary of the 1994 genocide, in which 800,000 people, most of them from the Tutsi ethnic group, were massacred by Hutu militia.

The killing started on 7 April 1994 and lasted 100 days. It cost the lives of 800,000 people, mostly from the Tutsi ethnic group. They were murdered by their neighbours.