The Interahamwe and the Presidential Guard continue massacres of civilians in Kigali. 29 people are killed in a church in a government-controlled area of Kigali. 400 orphans are held hostage by the Interahamwe and government troops. The captors of these children say they will kill them if RPF forces continue advancing towards government positions. The French newspaper, La Liberation, accuses the French Government of continuing to arm the Government in Rwanda that has been responsible for the massacres of about a half a million Tutsi and Hutus from opposition parties. The paper mentions the 6 million US dollars that France gave Rwanda to purchase arms from Egypt, arms that are being used to exterminate civilians. With the assistance of Human Rights Watch, members of the Rwandan community in the US file a case seeking compensation against Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza in a US District Court in New York. Barayagwiza instigated massacres over the Hutu extremist RTLM radio by encouraging Hutu to exterminate Tutsi, including members of the plaintiffs’ families. The plaintiffs submitted to the court evidence that Barayagwiza is an executive official of the Hutu extremist party CDR, which has its own militia operating in conjunction with Rwandan Government forces in carrying out a planned extermination of Rwanda’s Tutsi population.
