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Skulls of genocide victims in the school, 2001
Mummified bodies of genocide victims in the school, 2001
The Murambi Technical School, situated in the Murambi district in southern Rwanda, was the site of a massacre during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. When the killings started, Tutsis in the region tried to hide at the local church. However, the bishop and the mayor lured them into a trap by sending them to the technical school on a hill, claiming that French troops would protect them there. On April 16, 1994, some 65,000 Tutsis ran to the school, but immediately water and electricity was cut off. After managing to defend themselves with stones during a few days, the Tutsi were overrun on April 21. The French soldiers disappeared and the school was attacked by Interahamwe militiamen. Some 45,000 Tutsi were murdered at the school, and almost all of those who managed to escape were killed the next day when they tried to hide in a nearby church.[1]
The school building is now a genocide museum exhibiting the skeletons and mummified bodies of some of the thousands of people butchered there.
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Coordinates: 2°27′16″S 29°34′06″E / -2.4544, 29.5684
