Rwanda began commemorating the 25th anniversary of the genocide that killed a tenth of the nation's population on Sunday.
Rwandans will reportedly mourn for 100 days, which was the amount of time it took for 800,000 Rwandans to die in the genocide. The killing spree began in 1994 after President Juvenal Habyarimana and his counterpart from Burundi, Cyprien Ntaryamira — who were both ethnically Hutu — were killed when their plane was shot down. The attackers were never identified, but Hutu extremists began massacring minority Tutsis in retaliation. "Moderate" Hutus also faced persecution.
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