Mike Nkuzumuwami stands by rows of human
skulls and bones at a memorial to the genocide in Rwanda.
At the Kwibuka 20 ceremony — a Rwandan word meaning remember —
thousands of eyes gazed upward to watch a slickly produced film showing
the lesser scenes of genocide horror. A voice in English says the
killing spree was a planned political campaign that came from an
ideology called Hutu Power. Tutsis, the video says, were meant to be
exterminated.
Nsengiyomva Apollinaise, a local government official, says the
flame ceremony that has traveled the country and will make its way to
the capital, Kigali, on April 7, helps remind the country how far it has
come. The video shows newer, happier scenes, too: economic prosperity
and the calm face of President Paul Kagame.
Source by: Ben Curtis/AP
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