Unity and reconciliation is among priorities spotlighted by the Government of Rwanda following the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi where genocide perpetrators plead guilty and apologize in public.

The Rwandan genocide began in April 1994, and for around 100 days some 800,000 ethnic Tutsis were murdered.At the time Teganya was a medical student at the National University of Rwanda and a member of the Hutu-dominated ruling MRND party that incited the genocide.

Many Tutsis were killed with machetes, often having their Achilles tendons sliced to prevent them running away.

The Tutsi minority was blamed for downing the plane and the bands of Hutu extremists began slaughtering the Tutsi, with support from the army, police, and militias.

The killings of 1994 lasted until Kagame, then 36, led the mainly Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) into Kigali on July 4, ending the slaughter and taking control of the devastated country.

Patriotic Front (Tutsi), founded outside Rwanda, invaded from Uganda

Tutsi men, women, and children of all ages were massacred with machetes, guns, and grenades.

The attack mobilised Hutu government soldiers and allied extremist militia, who orchestrated the genocide to exterminate the Tutsi minority.

In the church which was presided by Rugirangoga, Tutsi victims were slaughtered by Hutu executioners, who were fellow worshippers and parishioners in the same church with their Tutsi victims.

Wide-scale propaganda was distributed, which created the perception of Tutsis being an internal and external threat.

For this the Hutu extremists held a group of Tutsi exiles, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF).

Plot: During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the Mufti of Rwanda, the most respected Muslim leader in the country, issued a fatwa (a ruling point) forbidding Muslims from participating in the killing of the Tutsi. However, it was at this time that neighbours were killing one another and lines of hatred were crossed.

Scholastique Mukasonga lived the ethnic conflicts in Rwanda and lost twenty-seven of her family members as a result of the Tutsi genocide, while being forced to take refuge in France.