However, the bishop and mayor lured them into a trap by sending them to the technical school, claiming that French troops would protect them there.

Some 20,000 Tutsi were murdered at the school, and almost all of those who managed to escape were killed the next day when they tried to hide in a nearby church.

[4] According to the guide at the memorial, the French brought in heavy equipment to dig several pits where many thousands of bodies were placed.

They then placed a volleyball court over the mass graves in an attempt to hide what happened[citation needed].

[2] The school building is now a genocide museum exhibiting the skeletons and mummified bodies of some of the thousands of people killed in Gikongoro Province in 1994.