April 21, 1994 marked the 15th day of the 100-day Genocide against the Tutsi, as the genocidal regime intensified coordinated killings across the country.

On April 20, 1994, Rwanda’s genocidal regime escalated its campaign to exterminate the Tutsi, with coordinated attacks and incitement spreading across the country particularly in Butare, then considered one of the last holdouts against mass killings.

The President of the Senate, Dr. Kalinda François Xavier, has condemned former priest Athanase Seromba for orchestrating one of the most horrific atrocities of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi—ordering the demolition of Nyange Parish church on Tutsi who had sought refuge inside.