The remains of thousands of victims of the Rwandan genocide are to be reburied in mass graves in Uganda, 15 years after the killings began.

Some 800,000 people were killed during the genocide, with many of the bodies thrown into Rwandan rivers.

Nearly 11,000 of them were eventually recovered from Lake Victoria in Uganda and buried by villagers in temporary graves.

They will now receive proper burials in three permanent mass graves.

"We have decided to accord a decent burial to those genocide victims," said Rwanda's Ambassador to Uganda, Ignatius Kamali.

"We want the exercise done within 100 days from today."

Ugandan officials said that they welcomed the plan.

The genocide began on 6 April 1994, after a plane carrying Rwandan Hutu President Habyarimana was shot down.

Hutu militias began a campaign of orchestrated killing.

Some 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered in 100 days.

sOURCE: bbc