While political strife ran rampant in Rwanda, Hutu extremists mercilessly slaughtered some 500,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu men, women and children to decimate the competition.

Skulls in Murambi Technical School

Kibumba refugee camp. Nearly 1 million refugees were camped in the area around Goma.

Rwandan refugee camp in Eastern Zaire, 1994.

Over 5,000 people seeking refuge in Ntrama church were killed by grenade, machete, rifle, or burnt alive.

Nyamata Memorial Site, skulls. Nyamata, Rwanda.