Government forces and militias continue to massacre civilians. They kill Tutsi Catholic Brothers and 70 other displaced people who took refuge in the Saint Famille Catholic Church in Kigali. The killers drag 190 people from another church compound in the Kigali suburb of Nyamirambo and kill 170 of them. The majority are Tutsi who have been seeking refuge in the church since the outbreak of violence in early April. The New York Times publishes an article with the headline “Officials Told to Avoid Calling Rwanda Killings ‘Genocide’.” The newspaper reports that “to avoid the rise of moral pressure to stop the mass killing in Rwanda, the Clinton Administration has instructed its spokesmen not to describe the deaths there as genocide, even though some senior officials believe that is exactly what they represent.”
