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KIGALI, Rwanda, April 6 (UPI) -- Rwanda marked a solemn anniversary Tuesday, the 10th year since 800,000 people were hacked, clubbed and stabbed to death, the BBC reported.
The slaughter was triggered by the shooting down of a plane with Rwanda's Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana onboard on April 6, 1994.
After the plane crash, the majority Hutus went on a country wide, 100-day killing spree against the minority Tutsis and also moderate Hutus. By the time it was over around 800,000 people - no one knows the exact number -- were dead.
In remarks Monday to a genocide conference in Kigali, Rwandan President Paul Kagame accused France, the closest ally of the Hutu regime, of helping prepare for the genocide.
It is well known that French military advisers worked with the Hutu government army right up to the beginning of the genocide, he said.
France denies involvement in or responsibility for the mass killings, the BBC reported.
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