What the records say
- When
- 15 Apr 1994 – 16 Apr 1994
- Kind
- Massacre
- Coordinates
- 2.28° S, 30.71° E
- Description
- Part of the Rwandan Genocide
Nyarubuye massacre
Event of the Rwandan Genocide
The Nyarubuye massacre was the killing of an estimated 20,000 civilians on April 15, 1994 at the Nyarubuye Roman Catholic Church in Kibungo Province, 140 km (87 mi) east of the Rwandan capital Kigali. The victims were Tutsis. Men, women, and children were reported to have been indiscriminately killed, with the attackers allegedly using spears, machetes, clubs, hand grenades and automatic weapons.
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- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Hutu-Soldaten beginnen in Ruanda damit, das Massaker von Nyarubuye unter den Tutsi anzurichten”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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