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The Gikondo massacre was the mass murder of about 110 people of Tutsi identity, including children, who sheltered in a Polish Pallottine mission church in Gikondo, Kigali. The massacre took place on April 9, 1994 and was executed by Interahamwe militia under supervision of the Hutu presidential guard. The massacre was the first[1] absolute proof of a genocide discovered by UNAMIR during the Rwandan genocide in 1994.

  1. ^ Major Stefan Stec – UN peacekeeper on 'Mission Impossible' in Rwanda, Linda Melvern, The Independent, October 7, 2005

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