The week marking the 18th edition of the commemoration of the genocide against Tutsis in Rwanda beginS April 7 by the broadcasting of music and meditation songs on all the airwaves and on national television during this period.
Jean De Dieu Mucyo the president of the Rwandan Commission for the Fight against Genocide made the announcement.
“During this period no person is authorized to perform marriages, and everyone should avoid the holidays or any other event of its kind,” the source said.
Among the events planned during this period, it is expected that a minute of silence will be observed throughout the country while the national flag be flown at half mast in honor of the hundreds of thousands victims of this tragedy of 1994.
A “Flame of Hope” that will shine until next July will be lit earlier in the day by the head of state, Paul Kagame, the genocide memorial site at Gisozi, a hill overlooking the city of Kigali are buried approximately 300,000 Tutsi genocide victims.
The 18th commemoration of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda will be under the theme “Remembering the genocide against Tutsi in learning from our history and building a better future.”
During the genocide, more than one million Tutsis were murdered by Hutu extremists who controlled the political and military power at the time.
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