An estimated 800,000 people were killed in massacres led by government-backed Hutu extremists that lasted more than 100 days.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has blamed the inaction of the international community for allowing the 1994 genocide to happen
Foreign visitors included a delegation led by Bill Clinton, who was US president during the genocide, and Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Bill Clinton, who was US president at the time of the genocide, led a delegation of foreign visitors French President Emmanuel Macron, in a pre-recorded video ahead of Sunday’s ceremonies, said France and its allies could have stopped the genocide but lacked the will to do so.
US President Joe Biden said in a statement: “We will never forget the horrors of those 100 days, the pain and loss suffered by the people of Rwanda, or the shared humanity that connects us all, which hate can never overcome.”Rwanda’s ethnic composition remains largely unchanged since 1994, with a Hutu majority. The Tutsis account for 14% and the Twa just 1% of Rwanda’s 14 million people.
The president said on Sunday that Rwandans are disgusted by critics who have “questioned and revised” the history of the genocide. Newly discovered skulls and bones of some of those who were killed in the 1994 Rwanda genocide as they sought refuge inside a church in Nyamata
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