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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks at a ceremony held in the UNDP coumpound in Kigali to commemorate the UN staff members who lost their lives in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
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In Kigali, Ban marks 20th anniversary of Rwandan genocide urging vigilance to prevent future atrocities

Commemorating “one of the darkest chapters in human history,” United Nations officials paid tribute this morning to the 800,000 men, women and children – overwhelmingly Tutsi, moderate Hutu and Twa – that were systematically killed 20 years ago in Rwanda, and urged the international community to work together and remain vigilant to prevent such atrocities from ever happening again.