Abstract
- In Rwanda, the clashes between the two Hutu and Tutsi tribes are setting the country on fire and blood.
- Western soldiers are on site to allow the evacuation of nationals. At the end of the afternoon, 250 Belgian paratroopers landed in Kigali and it seems that the Belgian community is the most threatened in Kigali.
- Heavy weaponry between Rwandan government forces and RPF rebels resumed at the end of the afternoon. The city offers a spectacle of chaos, the corpses are lying in the street and most of the inhabitants remain holed up in their homes.
- On the road to the airport, gangs of young people of the Hutu ethnic group, most of them drunk and uncontrollable, have been looking for Tutsis and have been massacring them for four days.
- From her orphanage, Sister Edith Budynek testifies: "It is always the Hutus who come to look for the Tutsi. At the orphanage itself, they killed two girls. After they went to the dispensary, they found six girls and they also found them. killed. These young boys are armed. I know them well, they live here all around the orphanage! ".
- Michel Roussin has just confirmed the smooth running of the evacuation of our nationals, even if we still have no news this evening from three of them.