{"id":32860,"date":"2014-04-08T12:18:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T06:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=32860"},"modified":"2014-04-08T12:18:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T06:48:12","slug":"rwanda-marks-20th-anniversary-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/rwanda-marks-20th-anniversary-genocide","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda marks 20th anniversary of genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/rwanda-marks-20th-anniversary-genocide\/rwanda\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32861\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"32861\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/rwanda-marks-20th-anniversary-genocide\/rwanda\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/Rwanda.jpg?fit=275%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"275,183\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Rwanda\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/Rwanda.jpg?fit=150%2C99&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/Rwanda.jpg?fit=275%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32861 alignright\" alt=\"Rwanda\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Rwanda-150x99.jpg?resize=150%2C99&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/Rwanda.jpg?resize=150%2C99&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/Rwanda.jpg?w=275&amp;ssl=1 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Rwandans have marked the 20th anniversary of the genocide that killed at least 800,000 people over a period of 100 days.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Rwandans and world leaders gathered at Amahoro Stadium in the capital, Kigali, on Monday to remember the victims of\u00a0the 1994 massacre.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we pay tribute to the victims, both the living and those who have passed, we also salute the unbreakable Rwandan spirit in\u00a0which we owe the survival and renewal of our country,&#8221; said Paul Kagame, Rwanda&#8217;s president.<\/p>\n<p>Kagame and Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, lit a flame at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre to remember an estimated million Rwandans died in three months of machete and gunfire attacks that mostly targeted the country&#8217;s minority Tutsi population.<\/p>\n<p>Actors also reenacted scenes from the genocide, forcing some severely traumatised people to be carried out of the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is so hard for the people, because it opens mental wounds, hearing the testimonies of those who survived, they are reminded of what happened to them,&#8221; a Rwandan health ministry official told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>In the years following the end of the violence in Rwanda, the global community has had to acknowledge that it did nothing to stop the killing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Change needed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kagame has won praise for pulling his country out of violence and his government has advanced women&#8217;s rights, economic development and health care.<\/p>\n<p>But critics say that progress has been marred by an authoritarian approach that has seen government critics and opposition members killed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are now 20 years after the genocide, so we cannot continue to do the same things we did in 1995 or in 2000,&#8221; said Frank Habineza, the leader of the country&#8217;s only opposition political party. &#8220;We ask the government to open up more space, allow more opinion, allow more political parties, but also enforce the rule of law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kagame blamed outside forces for the violence in his country and on Monday accused France of directly &#8220;participating&#8221; in the 1994 mass killings.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwandans have marked the 20th anniversary of the genocide that killed at least 800,000 people over a period of 100 days. 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