Attacks in Rwanda genocide week

by amyjudd | April 11, 2008 at 03:18 pm

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This week marked the anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and sadly there have been two fatal attacks against people trying to mourn.

Warning: the videos are explicit.

Police spokesman Marcel Higiro said armed men threw a grenade at the genocide museum in the capital, killing one policeman and injuring another.

In a separate incident, a car was driven at speed through a commemoration procession, killing one person.

A BBC reporter in Rwanda says tensions remain between survivors and the many people who took part in the killings.

About 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in 100 days 14 years ago.

An official says the museum was not damaged in the attack on Thursday evening.

"This act of terrorism was intended to frighten people away from coming to the Kigali Memorial Centre, but has had the opposite effect," said James Smith, head of the Aegis Trust which runs the museum.

The BBC's Geoffrey Mutagoma in the capital, Kigali, says he saw more than 1,000 genocide survivors at the centre on Friday paying their respects to slain friends and relatives.

A man has been arrested in connection with the procession incident, our reporter says.