'We hold each other up. Our bodies and minds bear amputations and scars, but none of us is alone.'
Kagame was speaking at the Kigali Convention Centre, a dome-shaped auditorium in the centre of the capital, a modern building emblematic of the regeneration of Rwanda.
Pictures of victims donated by survivors hang on a wall inside the Genocide Memorial in Gisozi within Kigali, Rwanda, on April 3 2019.In past years, ceremonies have triggered painful flashbacks for some in the audience, with crying, shaking, screaming and fainting amid otherwise quiet vigils. A quarter of a century on, the east African nation has recovered economically, but the trauma still casts a dark shadow.
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