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19 April 1994

Radio Rwanda broadcasts a speech by President Theodore Sindikubwabo in Butare inviting the population to “get to work”. Lieutenant-Colonel Cyprien Kayumba, director of the financial department of the Rwandan Ministry of Defense, oversees six deliveries of weapons to the genocide army, to the tune of $5,454,395. The last Belgian peacekeepers vacate Kigali. The Presidential Guard continues shelling Amahoro Stadium, where about 5000 refugees have been sheltering since the massacres began in Kigali.Interahamwe use machine guns, rockets, grenades and machetes to massacre approximately 2800 people in Kibungo

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