Foreign Affairs Minister, Jérôme Bicamumpaka, and CDR representative, Jean Bosco Barayagwiza, are received in France at the Elysée and the Ministry of Defense. Belgium and the United had refused to issue them the visas. In the southern town of Muyaga, 4,000 Tutsi are massacred by the Rwandan army and Hutu civilians. The world news is dominated by the election of Nelson Mandela as president in South Africa’s first post-apartheid elections.
