The commemoration event that took place yesterday brought together her relatives as well as residents of Nyanza District, Southern Province.
Queen Gicanda was killed with six women, close friends in Butare during the genocide and other relatives shot dead in front of the National Museum of Rwanda.
Queen Gicanda was buried in Mwima of Nyanza nearby the tomb of King Mutara III Rudahigwa and Kigeli V Ndahindurwa.
Gicanda is the last Queen of Rwanda. She was the wife of King Mutara III Rudahigwa.
Gicanda was born in 1928 in Rwamagana and killed on 20 April 1994 by soldiers of the then government during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in former Butare Prefecture.
She grew as a disciplined lady with good character that qualified her to become the wife of King Mutara III Rudahigwa.
Gicanda married King Mutara III Rudahigwa on 13th January 1942. In 1961 began the reforms shift from kingdom to republic, two years after the death of Rudahigwa (on 25th July 1959).
The latter saw Kayibanda Grégoire becoming the first president of Rwanda. 
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