National commemoration ceremony ends genocide week

"I call on the government and the people, on the Commission for Human Rights, on the Reconciliation Commission, not to forget the genocide - and to rebuild the country," Kigali Prefect Marc Kabandana stated at Friday's national ceremony to commemorate the genocide anniversary. A memorial site at Gisozi, on the outskirts of Kigali, would comprise "a mass grave, a genocide monument, a conference hall and a fire house, to always mark the
dark days of genocide," Rwanda News Agency (RNA) quoted Kabandana as saying. Thousands of people who died in the 1994 slaughter were reinterred in mass graves in virtually every prefecture in the country on Friday, after exhumation over the past few weeks, to end a week of Rwandan mourning and remembering.