THE International Panel of Eminent Personalities (IPEP) established by the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) to investigate the 1994 genocide in Rwanda left for Kigali on Sunday on its first fact-finding mission after holding its inaugural session in Addis Ababa. The six-member panel under the chairmanship of Ketumile Masire, former president of Botswana, will later visit other countries in the Great Lakes Region, Europe, the United States and Canada. Other members of the panel include Canadian deputy executive director of Unicef and former ambassador to the United Nations Stephen Lewis and former chief justice of the Supreme Court of India PN Bhagwati. Around 800000 people, mainly ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus, were killed in the genocide.