Rwandans pack sports stadium 20 years after the beginning of a 100-day genocide that led to more than a million deaths
Sorrowful wails and sobs resounded as thousands of Rwandans packed the country's main sports stadium to mark the 20th anniversary of the beginning of a devastating 100-day genocide.
President Paul Kagame and Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, together lit a flame at the Kigali genocide memorial centre, which estimates that more than 1 million Rwandans perished in three months of machete and gunfire attacks, mostly by extremist Hutus on the country's minority Tutsi population.
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