For 13 weeks the military, the police, para-military mobs and Hutu civilians armed with machetes and clubs, took to the streets. Men, women, children. Young and old. For no other offense than for being who they were, where they were. Near as anyone can tell, at least 500,000 innocent people were dragged from bed, or the hole they dug to hide in, and raped, tortured, ripped into meat and left to rot.
Witnesses report bodies or just chunks of human flesh littering lake shores and schoolyards.
At least one little girl was killed in the street, then run over so many times by passing cars and trucks that her body was flattened into the road as thin as cardboard, her existence reduced a little-noticed stain in front of the steps to a church. If the assailants kept busy 24 hours a day, that's 229 murders every hour, every day. That's four murders every minute. That's a crime against humanity completed every 15 seconds, non-stop, for 13 weeks. That's about 75 percent of all Rwandan Tutsi dead.