{{US President Barack Obama has marked the 19th Commemoration of genocide against ethnic Tutsi in Rwanda.}}
He said on sunday that the United States “grieves with the Rwandan people” who survived the killings.
Obama said, “We look with you to the future and renew our commitment to human rights and the rule of law, to the protection of the vulnerable, and to the prevention of atrocities so that such evil is never repeated.”
He said in a statement “19 years ago, Rwanda was torn apart by a great evil,”
“Today, we stand with the people of Rwanda to commemorate the Rwandan genocide. We honor the victims, and we express our solidarity with the survivors.”
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