Mike Nkuzumuwami stands by rows of human skulls and bones at a memorial to the genocide in Rwanda.

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