During the Rwandan civil war in Africa, some 5,000 Tutsis were massacred by Hutu extremists inside the Tarama Church in Brusela in April 1994.

 　　During the Rwandan civil war in Africa, some 5,000 Tutsis were massacred by Hutu extremists inside the Tarama Church in Brucella in April 1994. Countless human remains, stripped of flesh and all but bone, were scattered afterward.

　Immediately after the downing of the presidential plane on April 6, Tutsis took refuge in the Tarama church for fear of Hutu attacks. The Tutsis inside the church held out for several days with stone throwers, bows, and spears; on April 16, armed Hutu soldiers and the militia group Interahamwe surrounded the Tarama church. Through a hole in the church wall, which had been destroyed by hand grenades, Hutu militia invaded inside the church and massacred the Tutsis. Hutus also waited around the church and slaughtered the fleeing Tutsis. Fewer than 10 Tutsis survived.

　The Tarama Church in Bugesera, Rwanda, was a stronghold established by Tutsis fleeing persecution and killings by Hutus that broke out in the early 1960s. In March 1992, over 300 Tutsis were massacred in Bugesera in retaliation for the Rwandan invasion of 1990 by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF).

　The Rwandan genocide in Africa killed about 300,000 people in a little more than a month using machetes, clubs, stones, and other weapons with which they were familiar. The killers trained day in and day out so that they could efficiently kill as many people as possible, a process that required physical and mental strength. The carnage broke out in Kigali and spread instantly to the rest of Rwanda. When the Hutu government took over, instead of burying the dead, the bones of the dead Tutsis were piled on a table. Tutsi corpses inside churches were left to die. For years after the massacre, the smell of decay wafted from inside the church.