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The commemoration, Kwibuka (which means “to remember” in Kinyarwanda), begins on April 7. The country remains in mourning for the rest of the month. Photo: Supplied

Kwibuka32: Never and never again

But as they mourn, remember and reflect on their past, Rwandans are building their country into one of the continent’s shining examples of what can be done when the people unite and put national interest at the core of their lives

  • Library
3 min read
Human remains from victims of the Rwanda genocide as seen at the Nyamata Church Genocide Memorial on April 06, 2024 in Nyamata, Rwanda. Over 45,000 genocide victims are buried at the UNESCO World Heritage Site. During a roughly 100-day period in 1994, hundreds of thousands of members of the Tutsi ethnic group were killed by Hutu militias, during the the country’s civil war. (Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images)

How Rwanda’s annual genocide commemoration fans the flame of ethnicity

In 2014, the genocide was officially renamed from the Rwandan genocide to ‘the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi’

  • Des Erasmus
5 min read