THE international community’s inaction was to blame for allowing the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the country’s president said on Sunday.

Paul Kagame was speaking at a commemoration in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, for the estimated 800,000 people who were killed by government-backed extremists 30 years ago.

The killings were ignited when a plane carrying then-president Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, was shot down over Kigali.