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Rwanda - a decade after genocide
05 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT

Reuters photos show scenes from Rwanda 10 years after mass slaughter left almost a million dead.


 

Beatha Uwazaminka-Smith, a genocide survivior looks inside a mass grave containing coffins with human remains April 2, 2004 at the Gisozi genocide memorial in Kigali. Rwanda expressed regrets and resignation that Western leaders were conspicuously absent from a list of foreign dignitaries scheduled to attend memorial ceremonies in Kigali next week marking the tenth anniversary of Rwanda's 1994 genocide. REUTERS/ Radu Sigheti
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Human skulls are seen inside an open mass grave in the yard of the church in Nyanza April 4, 2004. Vowing never again, Rwandans began a week of commemoration on Sunday for the estimated 800,000 people killed a decade ago in 100 days of genocide that the outside world did little to prevent. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti REUTERS
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A Rwandan worker takes a break to smoke his pipe during preparations at the Gisozi genocide memorial in Kigali April 3, 2004 where around 250,000 people are buried in mass graves. Rwanda is preparing to commemorate the 1994 genocide in which 937,000 Tutsi and politically moderate Hutus died, according to an official census carried out by Rwanda's Ministry of Youth, Culture and Sports. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti REUTERS
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Rwandan genocide survivor Virginie Mukazi (L) wipes her eyes as she recalls memories together with her daughter Yvette Rutagengwa (R) at their home in Kigali April 3, 2004. Rwanda marks the tenth anniversary of its genocide on April 7, in which some 800.00 Rwandans died. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti
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A Rwandan worker cleans a mass grave outside the church in Nyanza April 4, 2004. Vowing never again, Rwandans began a week of commemoration on Sunday for the estimated 800,000 people killed a decade ago in 100 days of genocide that the outside world did little to prevent. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti REUTERS
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A Belgian soldier walks inside former military barracks, with the walls still shattered by bullets in Kigali April 4, 2004. Vowing never again, Rwandans began a week of commemoration on Sunday for the estimated 800,000 people killed a decade ago in 100 days of genocide that the outside world did little to prevent. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti
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Rwandan genocide survivor Edmond Niyonsaba (16) shows his head scar made with a machete as he leaves the church in Nyanza April 4, 2004 in which coffins with human remains are ready to be buried next week. Vowing never again, Rwandans began a week of commemoration on Sunday for the estimated 800,000 people killed a decade ago in 100 days of genocide that the outside world did little to prevent. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti REUTERS
REF: KIG03D



Two Rwandan workers carry soil during preparations of a mass grave at the Gisozi genocide memorial in Kigali April 3, 2004, where around 250,000 people are buried. Rwanda is preparing to commemorate the 1994 genocide in which 937,000 Tutsi and politically moderate Hutus died, according to an official census carried out by Rwanda's Ministry of Youth, Culture and Sports. REUTERS/ Radu Sigheti REUTERS
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