The Don Bosco Massacre

At the Don Bosco School of Technical Servants ( FR École Technique Officielle (ETO) Don Bosco ) in Kigali, 90 Belgian peacekeepers were stationed. From April 7, when massacres began, Tutsi fleeing from the deaths began to take refuge there. By April 11, about 2 thousand of them had accumulated, including about 400 children. Many of them already needed medical attention. The peacekeeping commander, Lieutenant Luke Lemeir, managed to get only a few bags of rice from Colonel Rwandan army Rusatira. Knowing about the imminent evacuation and what is likely to happen to the Tutsi left to their fate, Lemeir tried to persuade Rusatira to provide protection to the school, but was refused. At 10:30, the French military appeared at the school, evacuating their compatriots who were there. After this, the peacekeepers were to leave the school after the French. At 1:45 p.m., 90 Belgian blue helmets in jeeps left school, shooting over the heads of those running after them and begging them not to leave their people. The order to leave the post was given by Colonel L. Marshall, Commander of the Kigali Sector, Assistant Director of UNAMIR General Romeo Dalleyra , explaining his decision by the need to collect all the few resources available to protect the airport. Immediately through the gates opposite those from which the Belgians left, the Hutu militia entered the school and began to destroy the Tutsi . The few who survived this attempted to get to the UNAMIR nearest post, Amahoro Stadium, but were surrounded by military Hutus and Interahamwe who gathered them all together and, promising to provide protection, led them to nearby hills. A group of Ghanaian peacekeepers who passed by did not respond to their requests for help. In the hills, people were ordered to sit on the ground, after which they began to be shot, to throw grenades at them and kill the machetes . Only a few people out of two thousand survived - those who managed to hide among the corpses.

In 2005, the film " Shooting Dogs " ( English "Shooting Dogs" ; at the US box office - "Beyond the gates" ) was directed by Michael Caton-Jones, filming the events in the school "Don Bosco". Survivors of the event and relatives of the victims took part in the work on the film.

• Genocide in Rwanda
• Massacre at a psychiatric clinic in Kigali

• The film "Shooting Dogs"
• A chapter from the Human Rights Watch report on the actions of UNAMIR and the UN during the start of the genocide and the events in Don Bosco