July 17- As the RPF leads its final offensive, hundreds of thousands flee the fighting. Many find themselves packed into makeshift camps in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). Getty Images: PRI17 July 1994- A Zairean soldier steals from a Rwandan civilian before he crosses into the country, fleeing in front of advancing RPF forces. Corinne Dufka: ReutersJuly 18- By mid-July, the RPF and its commander, Paul Kagame (pictured in Kigali on July 20), are claiming victory. The government flees into Zaire. Getty Images:PRI19 July 1994- An elderly Rwandan refugee, exhausted and starving, is carried by relatives to a refugee camp near Goma airport in Zaire. Pascal Guyot: AFP19 July 1994- Rwandan refugees cross the Zairean border at Goma to flee RPF troops advancing on the town of Gisenyi. Pascal Guyot: AFP19 July 1994- Rwanda’s newly-elected Hutu president Pasteur Bizimungu and his vice president the Tutsi-led RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front) commander Paul Kagame, share a joke in Kigali. Pascal Guyot: AFP20 July 1994- A Rwandan refugee girl stands next to a mass grave outside Kigali, where dozens of bodies were laid to rest. Corinne Dufka: Reuters22 July 1994- A young Rwandan boy waits for his ration of water in a refugee camp near Goma in Zaire. Vincent Amalvy: AFP23 July 1994- An aid truck full of medical supplies makes its way past scores of bodies of Rwandan refugees who died of cholera. Corinne Dufka: Reuters24 July 1994- A Rwandan refugee carries his child on his shoulders on his return from Goma in Zaire. Vincent Amalvy: AFP26 July 1994- Rwandan children suffering from dysentery are given milk at an orphanage. Ulli Michel: Reuters28 July 1994- Rwandan refugees carry food distributed by the Red Cross at the Kibumba camp in Zaire. Ulli Michel: Reuters28 July 1994- A Rwandan woman collapses with her baby on her back along a road connecting Kibumba refugee camp and Goma in Zaire. Aid officials said that refugees were dying at a rate of 1,800 per day. Ulli Michel: Reuters29 July 1994- A Rwandan refugee carries the body of his baby who died of cholera towards a mass grave. Corinne Dufka: ReutersA survivor of a vicious machete attack which were characteristic of the Rwandan Genocide. BBCAn RPF soldier makes his way north towards Kigali. Jack Picone: Al JazeeraAn armed civilian group south of Kigali. Jack Picone: Al JazeeraDeeply traumatized Tutsi casualties at the Red Cross hospital in Byumba, north of Kigali, take stock of the enormity of what they have experienced. Jack Picone: Al JazeeraTwo young boys who had limbs cut off with machetes comfort each other in a hospital in Kigali. Jack Picone: Al JazeeraA woman hangs her washing to dry in a football stadium in Kigali as the shelling and killing continues outside. Jack Picone: Al JazeeraThe woman clasping her neck had just confessed to the RPF officer in the doorway to murdering seven Tutsis. She was held with others responsible for mass killings. Jack Picone: Al JazeeraHutus being held prisoner in the vestibule of a Catholic church. They were part of a government-sponsored armed group responsible for mass killings in Gikoro district. Jack Picone: Al JazeeraCivilians flee Kigali with what little they have. Jack Picone: Al JazeeraA grief-stricken and traumatized Tutsi woman outside a Red Cross hospital in Byumba, north of Kigali Jack Picone: Al JazeeraAt the Red Cross clinic in Nyanza, Tutsis who had been freed from a death camp were treated for their wounds. TimeRefugees wait behind barbed wire as they watch aid workers unload a new batch of supplies and food, at a refugee camp at the Kigera River border crossing with Rwanda. Michael S. Williamson: The Washington PostA deeply traumatized old man sits alone in the yard of his home in Rukara. Jack Picone: Al JazeeraRather than kill this young boy, his father said that a Hutu gang cut his Achilles heels so that he couldn’t walk. Michael S. Williamson: The Washington PostMen who volunteered to help bury the dead scan a field for a place to dig a grave for a 41-year-old woman in the Benaco refugee camp just inside Tanzania at the Kigera River border crossing with Rwanda. Michael S. Williamson: The Washington PostRefugees made makeshift crosses to honor those who died in the Benaco Refugee Camp. Michael S. Williamson: The Washington PostA group of gravediggers worked at dusk to catch up on the many graves that were needed to bury those who died in the Benaco camp. Michael S. Williamson: The Washington PostA young boy suffering from a cold was photographed just as he’d awakened after a cold night in the Benaco camp. Michael S. Williamson: The Washington PostRefugees carry water from a small lake that was contaminated from the runoff from a nearby area that was being used as an outdoor latrine. Michael S. Williamson: The Washington PostA man offered to use his hoe to dig a grave and bury the 2-week-old daughter of a friend who’d made it to the refugee camp only to lose the baby to illness shortly after arriving. Michael S. Williamson: The Washington PostRefugees near a large grave that was later used to bury several people who’d died in the camp. Michael S. Williamson: The Washington PostA group of hungry boys picking up pieces of grain that fell from a relief truck at the Benaco refugee camp. Michael S. Williamson: The Washington PostA Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) rebel soldier stares at a portrait of slain president Juvenal Habyarimana in Kigali. Corinne Dufka: Reuters
