86 girls in a missionary school in Gikongoro are reported to have been massacred and buried in a mass grave. The RPF forces continue to rescue people coming up from the swamps where they have been hiding. Refugees who fled to Tanzania are returning home, showing to be false the allegations by the Interim Government that the RPF has closed the Rwanda -Tanzania border. The UN Security Council continues discussing the Secretary-General’s request to expand UNAMIR forces in Rwanda. The Council is trying to reconcile the proposed UNAMIR troop size of 5,500 with the US suggestion of deploying an appropriate force along the Rwanda borders in protected zones. The RPF spokesman at the United Nations in New York, Claude Dusaidi, in an interview on BBC radio, says the UNAMIR expansion for Rwanda should be in the context of facilitating humanitarian assistance to the displaced, and protecting areas on the Rwanda–Zaire and Rwanda–Burundi borders controlled by the Rwandan army. Innocent civilians in these areas are being massacred by MDR and CDR militias and some government forces.
