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Ammu KANNAMPILLY and Ivan Rush MUGISHA

Rwanda Commemorates 30 Years Since Genocide

The commemorations are dubbed Kwibuka (Remembrance in Kinyarwanda) 30 (Credit: AFP)

Rwandans will on Sunday mark 30 years since a genocide orchestrated by Hutu extremists tore apart their country, as neighbours turned on each other in one of the bloodiest massacres of the 20th century.

The killing spree, which lasted 100 days before the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) rebel militia took Kigali in July 1994, claimed the lives of around 800,000 people, largely Tutsis but also moderate Hutus.

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