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decomposition of the corpses. The wounded were carried back to the church, where
Pallottine nuns provided them, in as far as possible, with water. On Major MÄ…czka's directive, priests collected part of the half-burned identity cards of the dead so that they may be used to identify the buried corpses. Major MÄ…czka also took pictures documenting the massacre.
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Pallottine priests and nuns began immediate first-aid dressing of the heavily wounded, separating them from the dead, who were dragged into two mass graves dug by trusted Pallottine workers. The job was very urgent due to the heat which would have accelerated the process of
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militiamen came into the church and began to kill people, striking with their clubs and slashing with their machetes, hacking arms, legs, genitals and the faces of the terrified people who tried to protect the children under the pews. Some people were dragged outside the church and attacked in the
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Pallotine chapel neighboring the church. About eleven Tutsi Rwandans including children who managed to survive the first attack on the church took refuge in the chapel, where Polish Pallotine Father Zdzisław gave them supplies necessary to
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Zowonogo. However the captain's response was negative – he argued that he had been informed about many similar events in the capital and that direct intervention of UNAMIR soldiers in all of these places was impossible. Major Mączka also tried to contact a duty officer of the predominantly
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identity to leave the church. One of the priests protested claiming that all of the people inside were
Christian worshippers and the members of the Pallottine congregation, but was told by the gendarmes that "the church was harbouring
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identity, who were then subsequently murdered using clubs and machetes. People living in the
Gikondo neighborhood had fled to the Pallottine church in the hopes of finding shelter and to sit out the turmoil.
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on board was shot down while approaching the runway of Kigali
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arrived. At the request of the two Polish army officers, two gravely wounded
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courtyard. The identity cards of the murdered ones were burned. The killing continued for two hours after which the whole compound was searched. The
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system channels were jammed with other calls for help. Eventually he managed to pass the report about the ongoing murders to UNAMIR duty officer,
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presidential guard. The massacre was the first absolute proof of a
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défense, Association québécoise des avocats et avocates de la.
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The Gikondo massacre is under the jurisdiction of the
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472:operational units to the church. Initially, all
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911:National Unity and Reconciliation Commission
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1039:Attacks on buildings and structures in 1994
342:was the mass murder of about 110 people of
906:International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
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579:Conspiracy to murder: the Rwandan genocide
529:International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
460:signed on August 4, 1993 on behalf of the
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160:International Criminal Tribunal
665:Origins of Hutu, Tutsi and Twa
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541:List of massacres in Rwanda
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601:"Documents corporatifs"
503:International Red Cross
483:Rwandan Patriotic Front
216:International community
211:Rwandan Patriotic Front
978:Double genocide theory
957:Kwibuka T20 Tournament
841:Operation Support Hope
821:International response
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390:The church in Gikondo
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176:Impuzamugambi militia
131:Musha Church massacre
1024:1994 in Christianity
29:Human skulls at the
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853:UNSC Resolution 935
831:Opération Turquoise
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400:Juvénal Habyarimana
227:UN Security Council
181:Interahamwe militia
148:Parties responsible
884:Massacres of Hutus
680:Rwandan Revolution
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518:Stefan Stec
495:Polish army
470:Bangladeshi
446:Interahamwe
412:Interahamwe
374:during the
360:Interahamwe
298:Filmography
1013:Categories
727:Massacres
723:Chronology
685:Hutu Power
653:Background
547:References
350:church in
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121:Chronology
89:Hutu Power
58:Background
862:Aftermath
741:Nyarubuye
489:Aftermath
378:in 1994.
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247:Aftermath
930:Bisesero
809:Response
535:See also
493:The two
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368:genocide
205:Response
42:a series
40:Part of
950:Nyamata
945:Ntarama
940:Murambi
794:Kangura
766:by the
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478:captain
466:Belgian
451:militia
439:inyenzi
408:Burundi
382:Prelude
352:Gikondo
187:Kangura
935:Kigali
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826:France
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344:Tutsi
171:Akazu
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