Abstract
- Operation Turquoise continues in Rwanda after the arrival of General Lafourcade in Goma, where 2,500 French people are gradually settling on the Zairian border. Paratroopers entered this morning to the southwest in the town of Cyangugu with the aim of setting up a humanitarian base there. Other soldiers had carried out reconnaissance in the Gisenyi sector where the Rwandan provisional government took refuge.
- Two trucks and 13 all-terrain vehicles, which left the rear base in Zaire, moved towards the town of Cyangugu. As in the previous days, the paratroopers were well received by the population. The Hutu militiamen even agree to dismantle the last roadblocks they had erected all over the roads in the region.
- In this district of Cyangugu, the religious authorities, one of the only independent sources of information, estimate that more than half of the Tutsi population has been massacred. There were 55,000 living in this area.
- The French army which took Nyarushishi refugee camp under its protection is now considering using Cyangugu airport as a humanitarian base.
- For General Lafourcade, "our presence dissuades and comforts the populations".
- A contingent of 300 Senegalese is arriving hard at work at Goma airport. Senegal is for the moment the only country to be concretely associated with the operation.