The École Technique Officielle was a Salesian secondary school in Kigali, Rwanda. On April 11, 1994, during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, over 2,500 Rwandans abandoned by the UN, in the school in which they set up base to supervise the peace between the Hutu and Tutsi, were murdered by extremist militias. This event is the subject of the movie Shooting Dogs (also called Beyond the Gates) by Michael Caton-Jones. The film illuminates the decisions and choices that were made to save whites hiding in the school thereby condemning the remaining Rwandans to death.
Despite the clear and persistent knowledge that the UN have had enough UN peace-keeping military personnel within the range of few hours of deployment to protect the refugees at the École Technique Officielle, the UN Security Council was unable to deliver the troops to the refugee site. Aftermath more than 2,500 were slaughtered. No investigation was probed even after the Belgian government demanded.
French troops who were behind a controversial evacuation of only 'white Westerners alleged that it compelled the order from the UN SC. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan did not comment when asked by Belgian and Croatian ambassadors to the UN about the inability to protect the civilian who were clearly taken a refugee at the École Technique Officielle school.
Vjekoslav "Vjeko" Ćurić, a Croatian priest and humanitarian, the only 'white' refused to be evacuated, and who has been later slaughtered, is recognized as one of the martyrs of the Franciscan Province of Bosna Srebrena. In Rwanda he is known as "Croatian Oskar Schindler" and a school in Kivuma is named after him.
The school has since been renamed École Technique de Kicukiro.