Israeli President in Rwanda for Genocide commemoration
Sunday, April 07, 2024
President Isaac Hergoz of Israel arrives at Kigali International Airport on Sunday, April 7, to attend the 30th commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. Courtesy

President Isaac Hergoz of Israel on Sunday, April 7, arrived in Rwanda to attend the 30th commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

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He touched ground at the Kigali International Airport in the morning hours as other dignitaries to lay wreaths at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre, Gisozi, where President Paul Kagame will light the ‘Flame of Remembrance’.

The flame will burn for the next 100 days, in memory of the more than one million lives lost from April through July 1994.

The Kigali Genocide Memorial is home to more than 250,000 victims, but also all victims of the Genocide are interred in different memorials across the country.

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Other Heads of State who are in Rwanda to attend the 30 years of commemoration include Czech Republic President Petr Pavel, President Andry Rajoelina of Madagascar, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, and Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani.

As well as South Sudan President Salva Kiir, who is also the chairperson of the East African Community, Former US President Bill Clinton, the President of the Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), Denis Sassou N'guesso, South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa, and Faustin-Archange Touadéra, President of the Central African Republic, jetted in on Saturday evening.

Different activities will resume after a four-year halt caused by the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions. They include Walk to Remember, an initiative that has been given greenlight, despite a limited number of 3000 participants.