Rwanda mourns genocide victims

Flags are flying at half mast in Rwanda as the country holds a week of mourning for the victims of the 1994 genocide in which hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed.

Places of entertainment will be shut, and state-run radio will play solemn music.

The killings followed the death of the Rwandan President, Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, in a plane crash in 1994. About five hundred people suspected of taking part in the genocide have been sentenced to death but more than 100,000 are still in prison, many of whom have been awaiting trial for nearly seven years.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service