KIGALI, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- Local Rwandan residents discovered 100 corpses of the 1994 Rwandan genocide in the capital city Kigali, a local official said Tuesday.

Residents have started retrieving the unidentified corpses in Nyarugenge district, a suburb of Kigali since Friday, after getting information from a genocide survivor who lived in the area during the 100-day tragedy, an executive secretary of Rwezamenyo Stella Mbabazi told Xinhua.

Mbabazi urged the genocide perpetrators with information to come out and tell the truth of where victims were dumped so that they could be given a befitting burial.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of 1994 genocide that left over 1 million people dead, mainly ethnic Tutsis. Enditem

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