On April 7, Rwanda began commemorative events to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi. The genocide started on April 7, 1994, and ended on July 4, 1994. In those 100 days, Hutu soldiers, police, militia and villagers slaughtered close to one million members of the Tutsi ethnic group.
The genocide had been long in the making. The Kigali Genocide Memorial archives the genesis, propaganda and manifestations of genocide ideology over the decades since independence of Rwanda from Belgium in 1962. The genocide ideology depicted the Tutsi as an oppressive and foreign community.
