On April 29, 1994 22 people, mostly school girls,
were killed in an attack in a Catholic girls’ school in Muramba in the Gisenyi
Region of Rwanda near the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire)
border. During the genocidal war a group of armed men broke into the school
ordering the children to divide up into ethnic groups, Hutus on one side, Tutsi
on the other. Witnessing that they are one loving community the school girls
refused. The men ruthlessly opened fire killing 17 girls and wounding 14. A
Belgian missionary nun, Sister Margarita Bosmans, the directress of another
school nearby, who tried to stop the assassins was also killed along with four
lay people.