(26 Apr 2018) Mass graves that authorities say could contain more than 2,000 bodies have been discovered in Rwanda nearly a quarter-century after the country's genocide, and further graves are being sought nearby.
The new discovery is being called the most significant in a long time in this East African nation that is still recovering from the 1994 killings of more than 800,000 people.
Some Rwandans are shocked and dismayed that residents of the community outside the capital, Kigali, where the mass graves were found, kept quiet about them for so many years.
The discovery of the graves in Gasabo district came just days after Rwanda marked 24 years since the mass killings of ethnic Tutsi and moderate ethnic Hutus.
It was not immediately clear what would be done with the bodies or the graves.
During the genocide, a roadblock manned by Hutu militias was established meters away from the sites of the mass graves, survivors told the AP.
Authorities have launched investigations.
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