Rwanda marks 30 years since genocide that horrified the world

A picture taken on April 29, 2018 shows a visitor looking at victims' portraits at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda. © AFP / YASUYOSHI CHIBA

Rwanda has begun 100 days of commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1994 genocide, in which 800,000 people, most of them from the Tutsi ethnic group, were massacred by Hutu militias.

Sunday marks the start of Kwibuka 30 (Remembrance), the sombre 30th commemoration of the genocide, which began on 7 April 1994.