Two nuns from Kibuye alert Lieutenant-Colonel Duval, the commander of a Turquoise detachment headed toward the Bisesero Hills in the commune of Gishyita, that Tutsi refugees were under threat of extermination in the hills where they had taken refuge. The detachment comes across some of the first survivors north of this area. Duval judges that he has insufficient means to secure the area and tells the survivors he is returning to Kibuye, promising them that he would come back as soon as possible.
