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PM BROWNE LAYS WREATH AT KIGALI GENOCIDE MEMORIAL

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Prime Minister Hon. Gaston Browne has laid a wreath at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda.
The Memorial is the final resting place of 250-thousand people who lost their lives during the 1994 genocide in the African country.
Over a hundred-day period it’s estimated that nearly 1- million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed.
The slaughter started after a plane carrying Rwanda’s then president Juvénal Habyarimana who belonged to the Hutu ethnic group was shot down and Tutsis were blamed for the assassination.
There are five other memorials throughout the country which honour those who were unjustly killed.
Prime Minister Browne was led on a tour of the memorial which included recordings from survivors, pictures of massacred victims including babies.

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