Thousands of Genocide Victims Are Reburied
Rwandans reburied the bodies of more than 20,000 victims of the 1994 genocide who had been dumped in mass graves, as the country marked the 11th anniversary of the massacre’s beginning with a week of mourning.
The reburials were a gesture meant to restore dignity to the victims of the genocide, in which more than 800,000 people died.
The genocide started after a plane carrying the nation’s president mysteriously crashed while landing April 6, 1994. The next day, Hutu militiamen set up roadblocks and began killing Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
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