Mourners sobbed as 81 white coffins containing the remains of 84,437 victims of the 1994 mass killings were buried at the Nyanza Genocide Memorial in the capital.
KIGALI - The remains of nearly 85,000 people murdered in Rwanda's genocide were laid to rest Saturday in a sombre ceremony in Kigali, a quarter of a century after the slaughter.
"Commemorating the genocide against the Tutsi is every Rwandan’s responsibility -- and so is giving them a decent burial," said Justice Minister Johnston Busingye at the mass burial. "Right now I am very happy because I have buried my dad, my sister and her children, and my in-law. Twenty-five years have passed and I had not known where they were," he told AFP.
More pits were later found when a man, tasked in 1994 with dumping corpses, came forward with new information."It is unfortunate that... these perpetrators, now free, never bothered to reveal to bereaved families the location of these grave sites, so they could get closure," he said.
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