Rwanda today begin a week-long national mourning to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the massacre in the country .
President Paul Kagame will ignite the torch that will burn for 100 days , indicating the length of the genocide that took place in 1994 ago .
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In just 100 days - starting on 6 April 1994 - around 800,000 people killed in Rwanda by Hutu ethnic extremist groups . They made the Tutsi minority groups and political opponents of any ethnic targeting .
The attack occurred shortly after President Juvenal Habyarimana was killed ethnically Hutu , when his plane was shot down over the Rwandan capital .
Killings halted in July 1994 when the Rwandan Patriotic Front rebel movement ( RPF ) led by ethnic Tutsi into the country from Uganda and took control of the government .
Week of national mourning will be done by laying a wreath at the monument of national genocide and followed by the lighting of the torch at the Amahoro Stadium in the capital city of Kigali .
The torch had been brought to the rest of the country during the last three months , visiting 30 counties and through villages .
International leaders including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair , South African President Thabo Mbeki and UN Secretary General Ban Ki -moon is scheduled to attend the ceremony .
Diplomatic conflict has made the French justice minister fail to attend the event , but Paris said its ambassador will come .
As is known , the Rwandan government has long accused the French - an ally of the former regime - helped the genocide .
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