Rwandans living in Mombasa over the weekend gathered at a city hotel to commemorate 25 years since the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi 'Kwibuka 25'.

'Kwibuka' is  Kinyarwanda for remembrance,

Over 800,000 people were killed during the genocide.

Early this Month Rwanda President Paul Kagame launched the 100 of Commemorating the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi by lighting the Flame of Hope at Kigali Genocide Memorial.

The event in Mombasa was presided over by the Rwanda High Commissioner to Kenya H.E.Dr.Richard Masozera.

In his speech Dr Masozera called on the youths who he said make the 70% of population in Rwanda to be in the forefront in making sure that the country does not go back to the dark days by uniting and preaching peace and coexistence.

He also shared how the Government had to put in place measures to avoid a repeat of the genocide which included changing the constitution and abolishing the previous national identification cards.

"When we got into government in 1994 we found identity cards which mentioned people's ethnicity and the entire reason was to discriminate one group of people against another. You know when they were killing people, when you get to a road block they ask you to produce your identity card some people were killed because they looked like one group that they were targeted even when they were not. There are things which you would benefit from if you belong to a certain enthnicity this was a wrong system to operate with in a society"

"The cards were abolished that far back in 1994 we then introduced identity cards that does not mention ones ethnicity so that you can benefit from any service  because you are a Rwandan and not from a certain ethnicity" he added