Nairobi/Kigali - Rwanda Tuesday was opening a week of commemorations on the 15th anniversary of the beginning of the 1994 genocide, which saw 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus massacred.
The bloodshed began after Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane was shot down on the evening of April 6.
Within hours, Hutu militia began a pre-planned campaign to wipe out the Tutsis.