African Union chief Moussa Faki, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, his wife Jeannette , and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker light a remembrance flame for the 25th Commemoration of the 1994 Genocide at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Kigali.
“It is our generation’s duty to never forget what human kind is capable of. It is only by remembering that building a brighter future together is possible. Europe has seen some of the worst atrocities known to men and in Europe just as in Africa and elsewhere time can never erase the darkest past in our history…”
The event to commemorate the death of about a tenth of Rwanda’s population mostly ethnic Tutsis in the genocide 25 years ago.To mark the start of the commemoration events, Rwandan President Paul Kagame lit a flame of remembrance at the Kigali Genocide Memorial.