7 April 2014
Last updated at 20:09 ET
'I saw armed gang murder my family'
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Rwanda is holding a week of official mourning to mark the 20th anniversary of the country's genocide.
On 6 April 1994, a plane carrying then-President Juvenal
Habyarimana - a Hutu - was shot down, killing everyone on board. Hutu
extremists blamed the Tutsi rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front
(RPF), and immediately started a well-organised campaign of slaughter. The RPF said the plane had been shot down by Hutus to provide an excuse for the genocide.
Between April and June, an estimated 800,000 people - mostly ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus - died at the hands of Hutu extremists.
Liliane Umubyeyi, who is now 35 and moved to Britain in 2000, witnessed her family being slaughtered by armed Hutus and was gang-raped, but survived. This Newsnight animation tells her story.
Interview by Ryan Dilley, animation by Aslan Livingstone-Ra
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