April 25, 1994 was the 19th day of the Genocide against the Tutsi. Killings of Tutsi had spread across the country. In the former Gitarama, Butare and Kibuye prefectures, Interahamwe, government soldiers and local leaders led the killing campaign. Despite evidence of genocidal killings in Rwanda, the United Nations Security Council failed to label the massacres of Tutsi as a genocide due to France’s push to avoid a more precise terminology. Since the beginning of the Genocide on April 7, the French authorities were concerned that RPF-Inkotanyi would win the…
SOMA INKURUApril 25, 1994: UN avoids labelling Tutsi killings as genocide
