Rwandans in Uganda have commemorated the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi by paying homage to thousands of victims who are interred in Uganda after they were thrown in rivers and ended up in Lake Victoria.

The event was held on Saturday, April 9, at Ggolo Genocide Memorial Site, one among the three Uganda-based burial and memorial sites for the victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

Ggolo is a burial site for 4,771 genocide victims whose bodies were washed into Uganda by tributaries of Lake Victoria like River Nyabarongo and Kagera where they were thrown by the killers.

During the event, the Rwandans were joined by friends, the diplomatic community and locals of Ggolo landing site (Mpigi district). Genocide survivors had also travelled from Rwanda to join the mourners in Uganda.

Rwanda’s High Commissioner of Rwanda to Uganda Joseph Rutabana together with guest of honourAmbassador Julius Kivuna, the Head of Regional Peace and Security at Uganda’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and diplomats lit a flame of remembrance.

Many sat in the tents staring deep at the flame, remembering the brutal and inhumane ways in which their own were killed during the Genocide.