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Massacre after the Belgian withdrawal from the ETO school (Don Bosco), Kigali, 11 April 1994

About 2,000 people sheltered at a Kigali school with Belgian UN troops; the troops left on 11 April and many of those left behind were killed. The UN inquiry calls the school ETO; Frontline calls it Don Bosco.

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11 Apr 1994
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Kigali

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  1. 11 Apr 1994 Massacre after the Belgian withdrawal from the ETO school (Don Bosco), Kigali, 11 April 1994
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  1. Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Actions of the United Nations during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda (S/1999/1257) [the UN PDF is an image scan; quoted text is taken from the copy of the UN web page archived at phdn.org/archives/www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/documents/RwandaReport1.htm (Parts I to V)], United Nations, 15 Dec 1999. Primary record
    On 11 April, after the expatriates in ETO had been evacuated by French troops, the Belgian contingent at ETO left the school, leaving behind men, women and children, many of whom were massacred by the waiting soldiers and militia.
    In massacres in the aftermath of the departure of the UNAMIR troops, he was killed.
    for his role in the assault on ETO
    There is no doubt that the decision to evacuate the school, leaving thousands of refugees behind at the mercy of the waiting forces of the Interahamwe
  2. The Triumph of Evil (FRONTLINE, PBS), transcript, PBS Frontline, 26 Jan 1999. Scholarship & press
    And I remember hanging on to a UNAMIR truck and asking the soldier, "Are you really abandoning us?
    The niece of the murdered politician, Lando, had been sent by her parents
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