On the 22nd of April 1995 more than 8,000 Rwandans were massacred and thousands more injured in Kibeho, an Internally Displaced people’s camp as the RPA troops unleashed heavy fire on the camps.

    The Kibeho Massacre occurred on April 22, 1995 in an internally displaced persons camp near Kibeho in southwestern Rwanda, Africa, where more than 40,000 internally displaced persons were living. The massacre left many bodies scattered and lying around. On the far right, a Zambian soldier from the UN Peacekeeping (PKO) Thirty-two Australian soldiers, part of the UN Assistance Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR), estimated that at least about 4,000 people were killed by Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) soldiers inside the Kibeho internal refugee camp. The new Rwandan government, led by the military wing of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, estimated the death toll at about 338. Most of the internally displaced persons were Hutu citizens who had fled the civil war.

　On April 18, about 1,000 heavily armed RPA troops arrived in Kibeho to close the camps. shortly after 10:00 a.m. on April 22, RPA troops opened fire on the crowd on the hospital grounds amid heavy rain as refugees rushed toward razor wire and barricades. hours, firing on the fleeing refugees; the RPA initially fired small arms into the crowd and then used a 60mm mortar. The Rwandan refugees were cornered and shot at; the RPA temporarily slowed down after lunch and resumed shooting until about 6:00 PM. Medical teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Australian Army struggled to cope with the large number of wounded. Many of the wounded were later transported to Kigali Hospital. Infantry units of the Rwandan Patriotic Army cleared the wounded in between shelling. Medical teams continued to provide first aid while the wounded were transported to bases and hospitals. The hospital was also shelled and moved to the Zambian compound. The massacre continued intermittently throughout the day. Rwandan refugees were killed throughout the refugee camps, and the RPA also fired automatic ammunition, rocket-propelled grenades, and .50-caliber machine guns at another Rwandan IDP who attempted to escape after 5 p.m. on April 22.

　The RPA began burying the bodies of Rwandan refugees during the night of April 22-23; at dawn on April 23, the Australian Medical Corps entered the area and autopsied approximately 4,200 bodies. The bodies had already been removed; the RPA forced the Australian military to stop autopsies on the bodies. They estimated that there were still 400-500 bodies, not including those that had been removed. The dead were killed by either bayonet stab wounds or close range gunfire. The Rwandan government minimized the number of killings to about 330 and UN officials to about 2,000. The Rwandan Patriotic Front's commission concluded that no site visit was made and that the massacre was the result of gunfire from internally displaced persons; the RPA forces' attacks caused panic in the crowds, and RPA soldiers, fearing riots, fired indiscriminately into the crowds.

　An estimated 800,000 Rwandans were massacred in just three months, from April to May 1994. The massacre was the result of intense ethnic conflict sparked by the outbreak of civil war, with Hutu extremists committing genocide against Rwandan Tutsis and moderate Hutus. The Tutsi-dominated RPA won a victory over the former Hutu-dominated government.