by Sun Yongming, Emmy Karemera ¡¡

    MURAMBI, Rwanda, April 9 (Xinhuanet) -- Rwanda's Prime Minister Bernard Makuza Friday called on Rwandans to take a lesson from thegenocide that claimed one million lives in only three months 10 years ago and bury the bloody past for good.

    Makuza made the remark in the village of Murambi, some 160 km southwest of the capital Kigali, where the Murambi Memorial Site was officially opened to mourn a total of 50,000 people killed here from April 8 to 9, 1994 by Hutu militia.

    Serious measures must be taken to ensure unity of the nation and the people, Hutus and Tutsis, assuredly say "never again" to genocide, he said to survivors of the Murambi massacre who gathered here for the ceremony.

    "We have to remember the genocide if we are to make it never again... We shall always remember our relatives not only in such aperiod, but day after day," said the premier.

    As many as 50,000 people, mostly Tutsis, hid themselves in the small village to evade Hutu militia's killing, but the fatal gathering led to a brutal massacre.

    "I just wish the world could come here and listen to the testimonies of genocide survivors," Makuza said.

    Meanwhile, he called on the international community to join hands in tracking down those ring leaders who masterminded the inhuman killing and are still at large now.

    In a continuation of President Paul Kagame's accusation againstFrance's close relationship with the former Hutu government, Makuza slammed the French government for its alleged arming and support of the Hutu army in the presence of foreign diplomats.

    The French ambassador to Rwanda laid a wreath at the graves of the Murambi victims even though Paris was so dissatisfied with Kagame's criticism of France in his speech at the National Reflection ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the genocide in the Kigali National Stadium Wednesday.

    The relationship between France and the French-speaking Rwanda deteriorated because the Rwandan government accused Paris of playing a bad role during the Hutu-ruling period and, in particular, the French newspaper, Le Monde, published a report saying that Kagame was behind the shooting down of the plane carrying former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana on April 6, 1994.

    Makuza also expressed his appreciation to the governments of Britain and Germany for their donation to the building of the Murambi Memorial Site.

    Before delivering a speech to the survivors, he visited the newly constructed Murambi Memorial Site, which has a photo exhibition and signed the guest book there. The new building is said to home all the skeletons and skulls of those dead now casually stored in three rows of bungalows.

    The prime minister entered one of the rooms full of skeletons and stood there in silence for a short time. Other visitors were shocked by the horrible skeletons and skulls, which have machete cutting in legs or ribs or bullet holes.

    One woman and one man, who survived in the massacre, narrated what they saw in the two days of savage killing 10 years ago. Sighs and sobs could be heard when they told their stories.

    The Murambi Memorial Site is now the second largest commemoration site in Rwanda after the Kigali Memorial Center, which was officially opened on Wednesday morning by President Kagame. Enditem