Christine Shelley, spokeswoman for the US State Department, refuses to use the word genocide when addressing journalists, indicating that the use of such a term has many implications. Oxfam issues a press release stating that the killing in Rwanda amounts to genocide. Human Rights Watch criticizes the French Government for receiving the Rwandan Interim Government officials Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza and Jerome Bicamumpaka. The President of the International Federation of Human Rights in France, Daniel Jacob, says that 5000 people trapped inside Hotel des Mille Collines in the center of Kigali have written a letter to him appealing to the international community for urgent help.
