About 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus were killed during the genocide.
The remains of a fugitive major suspect in Rwanda's 1994 genocide have been identified in a grave in the Republic of the Congo, a United Nations war crimes prosecutor said on Friday.
Rwandan genocide fugitive Felicien Kabuga, whose arrest on Saturday ended 26 years on the run, was a frail, elderly man who said little to neighbors.
Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, who is accused of funding militias that massacred about 800,000 people, was arrested on Saturday near Paris after 26 years on the run.
‘A guiding ethos of the world order following WWII – that was coeval with the Holocaust – was engraved in the commitment of ‘never again’
The flight will open up business opportunities for Rwandans as well, artists and business minded people who took the inaugural flight told CNBC.
Uwase, who turns 25 on Friday, was two days old when the bloodshed began.
While Paris has acknowledged mistakes in its dealings with Rwanda, it has repeatedly dismissed accusations that it trained militias to take part in the massacre.
Israel and Rwanda initially established diplomatic ties in 1962, but Rwanda along with African states severed those ties after the 1973 Yom Kippur war.