May 28, 1994 marked the 52nd day of the 100 days of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, as killings continued to intensify across different parts of Rwanda under the direction of the interim government and allied militias.
Towards the end of May 1994, the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF-Inkotanyi) intensified military operations aimed at stopping the genocide and rescuing thousands of Tutsi who were still under attack in areas not yet liberated.
At the same time, the interim government accelerated the extermination campaign against Tutsi, particularly in the southern regions of the country where many victims remained trapped in hiding places.
On May 28, French international broadcaster Radio France Internationale (RFI) reported that members of the interim government had fled from Gitarama to Kibuye as the security situation continued to deteriorate amid the advancing RPF-Inkotanyi forces.
RFI journalist Monique Mas, who was reporting from Rwanda, visited Nyamata and revealed that more than half of the population that had lived in the area before the genocide had been massacred by Interahamwe militias working alongside government soldiers.
The reports were corroborated by Belgian Professor Alain Verhaegen, who spoke to RFI from Brussels after returning from Rwanda where he had been working with Médecins Sans Frontières Belgium.
Verhaegen described the scale of atrocities committed against Tutsi civilians and warned about the worsening humanitarian situation unfolding in the country.
On the same day, Ambassador Amuri Sued, one of the individuals evacuated from Hôtel des Mille Collines by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) before crossing into areas controlled by the RPF-Inkotanyi, also spoke to RFI about the gravity of the genocide.
He accused the interim government and Interahamwe militias of orchestrating the massacres and called on the international community to support the RPF-Inkotanyi efforts to stop the genocide and save lives.
