The rwandan people gathered Sunday for a serious commemoration of the 800,000 tutsis and hutus, who were killed during the genocide in Rwanda 25 years ago.

the Ceremony marks the beginning of a week-long series of events to commemorate the dead.

the Rwandan president, Paul Kagame, laid a flower wreath at the mindepladsen Gisozi Genocide in the capital Kigali, where approximately 300,000 rwandans are buried.

Here were songs sung, poems recited and Kagame gave a speech.

– Our main obligation is that history is not repeating itself. Our bodies and minds bear the amputations and wounds, but no one is alone. Together we have sewn frayed threads of our unity together for a new wallpaper, said Kagame, according to The Guardian.

Paul Kagame was greeted by European commission president Jean Claude Juncker and the president of The African Union, Moussa Faki leader mahamat.

on Sunday evening and night went over 2000 persons, with the light from parliament to the national stadium.

Alice Mukarurinda participated. Her child was killed during the genocide by the hutus. She has forgiven their actions.

– the Anger can never give you peace. Those who killed my family, have apologised and I have forgiven them. The future is important to us, she said to the ceremony.

the Genocide was launched after a plane with the then president, hutuen Juvenal Habyarimanas, was shot down, just as it did to landing.

It came to pass 6. april 1994, and it was that really ignited the anger of the hutu, who for decades had felt worse treated than the tutsis.

By dawn the next day went hutus in the streets, and in about 100 days was the killing of the agenda. With clubs, machetes and guns were the 10,000 daily chopped to death, shot or burned alive.

When the killings finally ceased, fled many of the perpetrators out of the country.

About 70 percent of Rwanda’s tutsis were killed, which was ten percent of the total population.

the Genocide ended in July 1994 when the tutsi-led rebel group, Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) came from Uganda and took control of the country.