he was belgium's ambassador to kigali. from nineteen ninety two ninety four and is the author of the forthcoming book posts kigali memories of the ones in jan tragedy of the joplin year in both the atlantic council whose books include the water crisis history of the genocide. benjamin said henin. writer whose first book the ethics trial inspired by his return to kigali in nineteen ninety four and has been cats katherine or strand is just back from the rwandan capital and wood. year to year and you're far away when you hear the news of what's going on member nineteen eighty four there are many images numbing pictures. and what makes you decide to go back through reading i was in. in touch with reluctance. there are some remedies in uganda story. i knew what was going wrong arm. i salute the arbiter fortune of attending in frost was unfair because it depicts a one week someone would be wrong but warned of growth. did tony morris. for you. we're going to shoot the cartoonish joe blow. if it comes to move the circumference lea

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and paris. >> georgia kelvin smith reporting from kigali to mark the 20 years since the genocide. we will be bringing you the speech from kigami when it begins. >> let's go to india where people have begun voting in the world's biggest general election. the vote is spread out over nine stages due to the sheer size of the country. the votes will not wrap up for another month yet emma with the main hindu nationalist opposition party had to get the strongest back in. it's concerned, it would bring an end to their willing congress party's 10 years in power. the first stage of india's mammoth elections, voters line up to cast their ballots. the process began in two states restiveountry's northeast. >> i feel great. i'm voting for the first time. >> we hope to have a good leader who forms a stable government and can find solutions to the problems the country is facing. >> dozens of parties are in the running, but polls put opposition bjp out front. been touring the entire nation for the last six months and talking about changing the future of india. >> faced with rising food prices and

it is quite in kigali today. almost all of these doors are shut. the streets are quiet.e stadium was full of people. were a lot of vips and are wanted to wanted to mark the anniversary of the genocide together. there were speeches. there were testimony by survivors. a lot of people were moved. there were survivors in the stadium who experienced trauma. crying andiling and they're usually escorted out of the stadium, taken to a special room where there are counselors and mental health professionals to help them. latestyou talk about the kagameetween president and the french? that,t i know about basically, i know from international news reports. you mention that yesterday the french decided to pull out. the foreign ministry responded. disinvite in the french ambassador to the ceremony. there was only one phrase spoken in french and the play that happened today. i'm going to paraphrase, but it was something like there are countries that don't truly understand what genocide was and don't speak its truth. that was the only thing we heard in french. >> you just spoke to presid

well let's try and restore belief that we had orginally what i'll report in the rwandan capital kigali need to hurry back. a community of their arctic and hear of me this time another week of the year. perhaps you can just briefly outlined some of the activities that of the noble prize that are being held to the divorce of the next few days to mark the start of this we hope the rwandan genocide why until in the us team can mention to gain height of what suggested to me was that the knots of these commemorations. the principle of them and think of uncertainty to get back to twenty eight the remembrance day protest in central plan for the next one hundred days of discussing a blessing to one hundred days of the genocide but before that was touch and go down to packing. it's just that the country. this is the queen of the perceived or real way to pick one of the country in the middle of what toppings. the band's of bed and when thorn park to produce constable for what i do we also understand that that ddt was taken using the link is right across the country and kisses from the images to p

she will not come to kigali the petition but the trend toward. not on the third location. reporting from cali another woman has the full weeks now since malaysia airlines flight in each three seven zero carrying two hundred and thirty nine passengers vanished without a trace one roof on them to beijing. but today had chinese ships that it picks up a signal in the indian ocean which can be linked to the missing of bowling triple sentinel the frequency off the signal is the same as that given off by the blackhawks on passenger aircraft. with the tiling to greece no one to one twenty million degrees east to a nice network cctv when all able to stay with the exact coordinates of the brain called the radio signal detected by chinese ship in the southern indian ocean authorities confirmed frequency match the one committed by the jets are hoaxes. we cannot confirm that the pulse attack that this afternoon belongs to the black box of malaysia airlines and each three seventy. the information is being analyzed by china's maritime rescue center window waiting for professional confirm

this is the church, 30 kilometers south of kigali. during the genocide, 15 thousand people fled here seeking sanctuary inside. but militia stormed the building and murdered nearly all of them. it is now a mass grave and the morrill. interred 45,000 people beneath the church. remains of those killed in 1994 are still being found in the area. when they are discovered, they are brought here. the crypt is cold and smells of mold. bones serve as a memorial. their message is the crime should not be forgotten or denied or ever happen again. some of the skulls reveal how crude the weapons were that were used against them. every day, this person shows visitors around the site. stone. cut this everything. in the roof you see this. inside the church, we have the clothing of the victims. during of the massacres the genocide took place in catholic churches. hundreds of thousands fled to their priests, thinking the clergy would protect them. but many of them were simply handed over to moms. in some places, the murders went on for days. church altar

. >> sorrow fell on the stadium. 20 years on, the pain is still fresh year in the capital, kigali. relatives, survivors, and heads of states gathered in the thousands to your member what ban ki-moon -- to remember what ban ki-moon has called one of the darkest moments in human history. the genocide has left deep scars in the country's collective memory, but today is about reconciliation and moving forward without forgetting the past. >> history is history. we cannot forget about history but we are trying to build ourselves for the future. but we can't forget what happened. >> 20 years ago, a mass slaughter began in rwanda. the violence erupted after the plane of the then president, a hutu, was shot down. members of the ethnic hutu majority accused the tutsi minority of carrying out the attack. a cloud of shame still hangs over the community which watched idly from the sidelines as the violence unfolded. the current president and his rebel army brought an end to the killings. he is calling for a national dialogue to heal the country. >> we listen to and respect the views of others.

he served from the capital kigali. the rainy season is a difficult time. it reminds him what happened to his family the eye. it makes me think of having to run away during the genocide in april nineteen ninety polls have shown. my hat to hide in the far east. we'll put this is a vine to a completely exposed to the rain. we don't know how to protect ourselves against the fifth over with a pulled up. we would do in the seventeen and jones minutes is when the dead including six of his children his wife and his mother. he lived in hiding for three months. off to its. he tried to rebuild his life . his house up to the genocide he says and does. all posts. ron says they use to be buildings a living. they've been destroyed. the event might build from scratch. you can assign to this. chloe. he is only shown still conti maggi mee conciliation with those responsible. up until two years ago people would throw stones in his house. those who murdered his family and friends is the property are in jail. relatives live all around him. you do. well it is open to the front

remember when we arrived in kigali. i'm beyond citing an incident in which to measure them do that it would ease of thousands hallway looking beyond the suit. on this piece a week following week will prove it. he was right the apocalypse. soon everyone was just expecting to go into one into the mental model of the interview. and they're going to use. i'm not. a man who used to it. we saw him if he can just appear and disappear entirely. they did it happen so quickly. at the time we said what a little provocative be perhaps you can stop the genocide with the doctor said all but gone to the point. we we're calling for military intervention and complement the neutral intervention that military action against the perpetrators of genocide and reform vote for us the objective was simply to help people survive to you come to market and when you see people being attacked like that. that is in line to the un force is one auntie was like ten times a week and a new baby sits just on the go. history month and the atrocities began o

greed template control of the complex hundreds had gathered at the cathedral in rwanda's capital kigali to commemorate the lives of the eight hundred thousand people were killed during the nineteen ninety four massacre a week of official mourning to mark the twentieth anniversary of the genocide star someone take it for seven. on april six nineteen ninety four one hundred days of slaughter for accounts with the two governments an extremist militias orchestrated the genocide to terminate that aussie minority ethnic group moderate youtube are also targets they were slashed with michigan's by members of the hutu majority throughout the country neighbor turn on neighbor hacking each other to death the bi lo store school in the fabled any of the plane carrying rwanda's president is loyal presidential guard unleashed a campaign of terror against that of seats they accused of being behind the attack the fighting ended in july of nineteen eighty four when the chelsea liverpool group marsh done kigali and took control of the country the polls only to an elton has played to the jewish wife of ros

the pundits had gathered at the cathedral in rwanda's capital kigali to commemorate the lives of the eight hundred thousand people were killed during the nineteen ninety four massacre a week of official mourning to mark the twentieth anniversary of the genocide starts on monday the seventh of april six nineteen ninety four one hundred is it's waterproof cast with the two governments in extremist militias orchestrated the genocide to terminate that aussie minority ethnic group moderate youtube are also targets they were slashed with machetes by members of the hutu majority. throughout the country neighbors terminator hacking each other to death. the bios march following the failed any of the plane carrying one does presents his loyal presidential guard unleashed a campaign of terror against the tide seems to be accused of being behind the attack the fighting ended in july of nineteen eighty four one eight as he led rebel group marched on kigali and took control of the country the eye. the false dawn the two milton has played to the jewish wife of france's new prime minister. my new ba

represent france during the twentieth anniversary ceremony of the rwandan genocide to be held in kigali on monday. the justice minister canceled a trip up to president polk county accused france of participating in the bloodletting in nineteen ninety four which left eight hundred thousand people dead the french government's dealings with the two authorities in charge of the time of the massacre at the origin of the allegations legacy has been that french was dropped in favor of english as one of the official languages and rwanda in two thousand and eight. this is frank and ollie calcutta mother is an exception to the role. it is he looking confused the french language has been condemned as the language of the palette that led to genocide has been all that facilitated the genocide. so now i think the work of artists is to say it's not just the kind which are uncommon york times it's also the time which has millions of people wanted consistency do you think so. reconciling the cost is something no one didn't set well with victim and perpetrator living peacefully side by side twenty years

they are coming via metro kigali paid in the stabilizing eastern democratic republic of congo the redskins also surround the assassination of dissidents who had fled to other countries. suspicions this is the result says were taken in the can the congress the west. savannah are you a journalist for the weekly magazine young africa and do a job in his company commemorations of the land and genocide. eight hundred thousand dead in just one hundred days twenty years late and has justice being done and we couldn't turn up rear of the governor was to the guilty has been somewhat least most of the leaders have been arrested in singapore. i messed up and tried by the international criminal tribunal for rwanda and in the taste of the rich in tanzania. will complement there was that the criminal sort of them were found guilty. they often stop and not all of them receive long sentences and some of the sentences were much reduced on appeal yesterday current and some of the fugitives have not been apprehended. don't bid on yep they'll find a pair of kid friendly i think faster than the sum of them are

twenty years on the team is still fresh here in the capital kigali relatives and survivors and heads of state. they gathered in the thousands to commemorate when un secretary general ban ki moon has called it one of the darkest moments in human history the genocide has left deep scars in the country's collective memory. but today is about reconciliation and moving forward without forgetting the past he studied his three week conflict in catholic history like me and trying to build a life comes time to do well for the kitchen. lexi can forget what happened. twenty years ago a mass slaughter began in rwanda. the violence erupted after the plane of then president chavez now getting on a tutu was shot down. members of the ethnic hutu majority accused the tutsi minority of carrying out the attack militants massacred almost a million tutsis and moderate hutus in just one hundred days a cloud of shame still hangs over the world community which was widely from the sidelines as the violence unfolded current president called for the man and his rebel army private and to the killings he's calli

what happened on a look on the hills and in kigali in this very strongly committed to an end even in this budget cut off being called priests the brits people's lives and that the democrat position can be even send troops. un un troops and. but if that is some need a custom question can do with the steelers is presented by the by the idea and by the prime minister of belgium belgium the light french open up steam and securing and protecting the euro and the endangered to the people that cindy sheehan has agreed to review the road rest of the apple rate the interest of his former pastor neil hansen and would actually pick a topic when i can result in a questions when i can answer today. but now we had i appreciate you sharing your thoughts your experience as the ambassador on the eve of what is the worst genocide million modern times in rwanda. i think some people watching youtube here on costly tap into the eye. moon i was in. the road. it is ch do what what . education in science is one of the most important issues of the country this year the government located one point five to co

secretary-general ban ki-moon spoke at monday's commemoration in kigali. >> when i first visited, i heard and felt the silence of death. the silence of all of those lost in the silence of the international community in your hours of greatest need. reveriewed remarkable -- bravery, but we could have done much more. we should have done much more. >> for our full coverage of the 20th anniversary of the rwandan genocide, including how the clinton a administration refuse to call it a genocide at the time, you can go to democracynow.org. restorete has voted to aid for 2.8 million americans who have been unemployed for more than 26 weeks. benefits for the long-term unemployed expired in december. the bill now heads to the republican-led house, where speaker john boehner has indicated it is an unlikely to get a vote. the death toll from a mudslide northeast of seattle, washington has risen to 33. the local medical examiner's office at three people still remain unidentified while 10 remain missing two weeks after disaster struck the town of oso. memorial services for the victims began over the wee