KIGALI – VICE PRESIDENT Dr Constantino Chiwenga arrived here yesterday for commemorations to mark the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda, which saw Ethnic Hutu extremists slaughter over 800 000 minority Tutsis in just 100 days in 1994.

VP Chiwenga — who was met at Kigali International Airport by Zimbabwe’s charge de affairs at the Tanzanian Embassy Ambassador Martin Tavenyika and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade director for Africa, Asia and the Pacific Ambassador Alice Mageza — will take part in the commemorations before Zimbabweans join the people of Rwanda during an inaugural reflection, which will be held at Arrupe Jesuit University in Harare on Friday.

President Paul Kagame is this morning expected to light a remembrance flame at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, where more than 250 000 victims are buried.

President Kagame, who led forces which defeated the extremists, will thereafter preside over a ceremony at the Amahoro National Stadium.State media