Horrific murders are orchestrated against 30,000 Tutsi gathered at Kabuye Hill, near Ndora Commune, in Butare Prefecture. Government officials in the prefecture play a key role in organizing and conducting the killings. Doctors from Médecins Sans Frontières see Interahamwe and soldiers of the Presidential Guard murder 170 Tutsi patients and staff at Butare Hospital. A Médecins Sans Frontières official says that from the border in Burundi he managed to count 30 dead bodies in only five minutes, floating on the Akanyaru River between Rwanda and Burundi. RPF forces start evacuating refugees to safe zones in Byumba and Gahini
