The Nyarubuye massacre is the name given to the killing of an estimated 20,000 civilians on April 15-April 16, 1994 at the Nyarubuye Roman Catholic Church in KibungoProvince, 140 km (60 miles) east of the Rwandan capital Kigali.
On 3 December 2003 a Rwandan court in Rukira, Kibungo found 18 people guilty of genocide crimes.
Gitera Rwamuhizi, a leader of the group responsible for the killings, was sentenced to life imprisonment, and after pleading guilty the sentence was dropped to 25 years.
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