In Pictures: Rwanda marks 25 years since event that triggered genocide
The shooting down of a plane carrying the country’s president sparked the killing by Hutu extremists of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 100 days.
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Twenty-five years ago, Rwanda descended into an orgy of violence in which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred by the majority Hutu population over a 100-day period in what was the worst genocide in recent history.
The massacres, mostly by gangs wielding machetes, swept across Rwanda and groups of people were killed in their homes and farms, and where they sought shelter in churches and schools.
