he says was his 'personal failure' to prevent the slaughter of an estimated 800,000 people." Moreover, through the Clinton Foundation, he has attempted amends by sponsoring initiatives to help rebuild Rwanda. Belgium After the genocide, a traumatized Belgium began a parliamentary reflection, with the Senate starting the Commission d'enquête parlementaire (Parliamentary Inquiry Commission), which inquired and composed a parliamentary report. On 6 April 2000, Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt attended the ceremony commemorating the sixth anniversary of the genocide in Kigali. He took the occasion to make apologies and took on "the responsibility of my country, according to what we have learnt afterwards in the name of my country and of my people, I beg your pardon." Other African states The OAU, which is now the African Union, created a report on the genocide in 2000. Before the UNAMIR mission led by General Roméo Dallaire (military) and Jacques-Roger Booh-Booh (civilian), the OAU had indeed sent a Neutral Military Observation Group, known by its French initials as GOMN. China To honour the lost and the injured, the Rwandan embassy and Chinese communities organized events in Beijing and a few Rwandan communities. Memorials were marked with silence, prayers, songs and presentations on the history of Rwanda and expressed the hope that the world could learn from the tragedy. See also Mogadishu Line References External links "Tous complices du génocide au Rwanda" Voices of Rwanda The Rwanda Testimony Film Project Rwandan genocide 1990s in Africa