Fleeing the explosions of violence that began in 1994 after the assassination of the Hutu President, 245,000 Rwandan Hutus escaped towards refugee camps located in Tanzania, Zaire and Burundi. Nearly a million Rwandans who could not escape from massacres are estimated to have died.

Kibumba Number One had 350,000 refugees, but grew even larger when the government of Zaire sent refugees from Goma and Munigi. Zaire, 1994.

With as many as 350,000 arriving at the refugee camp at Benako in just four days, the initial conditions were deplorable. Tanzania, 1994.

Mutilated Tutsis in an abandoned school in Nyarubuye, Rwanda, 1995.

In the camp at Kibumba, thousands of Rwandan refugees die daily of cholera, dysentery, and starvation. French Army tractors pile the bodies up against mounds of volcanic lava and then cover them with earth. Death has become a management problem. Zaire, 1994.

At the village of Biaro, the Zairian Red Cross has been summoned by Kabila's forces to bury the dead to avoid the spread of disease and to count the orphans (about 1,000). Zaire, 1997.