Rwanda commemorates the 1994 genocide that claimed at least 800,000 lives

Rwanda on Monday commemorated the 1994 genocide that claimed the lives of at least 800000 people, mostly from the Tutsi community, who were massacred by the Hutu militia. 

This year’s event is overshadowed by the ongoing crisis in the eastern DR Congo, where the Rwanda-backed M23 militia has gone on a rampage against the authorities, seizing two major towns of Bukavu and Goma. 

Locally known as ‘Kwibuka’, meaning Remembrance Day…