In keeping with tradition, the ceremonies on the 30th anniversary of the genocide began with Kagame placing wreaths on mass graves and lighting a remembrance flame at the Kigali Genocide Memorial.
On April 7, the day Hutu militias unleashed the carnage in 1994, began with Kagame placing wreaths on mass graves and lighting a remembrance flame / Photo: AFP
"It was the international community which failed all of us, whether from contempt or cowardice," he said, addressing an audience that included several African heads of state and former US president Bill Clinton, who had called the genocide the biggest failure of his administration. The international community's failure to intervene has been a cause of lingering shame, with French President Emmanuel Macron expected to release a message on Sunday saying France and its Western and African allies"could have stopped" the bloodshed but lacked the will to do so.
Rwandans will also stage a march and hold a candlelit vigil in the capital for those killed in the slaughter.
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