On Friday 2, May 2014, The Institute of Legal Practice and Development (ILPD) visited the Murambi memorial site situated in the Nyamagabe district in Southern Province, Rwanda. This was the site of a massacre during the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi. Before 1994, the site was a technical school. During this visit ILPD Staff took a minute to honor and respect victims of the Genocide at Murambi by putting flowers on the grove. Accompanied by the Guide of the memorial, the ILPD Staff made a tour of different parts of the site. They were told in summary the history of Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda and particularly what happened at Murambi. In 1994, when the genocidal campaign arrived in the region and the killings began, Tutsi fled to the church in Gikongoro. Once there, however, the local authorities as well as the Bishop insisted that they head to the unfinished technical school in Murambi. There, they were told, they would benefit from French protection. In the second week of the genocide, therefore, on April 16, 1994, an estimated 65,000 Tutsi fled from one ostensible safe haven to another, from the church to the school. Once there, their situation deteriorated. The water and electricity supply was cut off. And the thousands of internally displaced were also languishing without food. For a period of five days, the thousands of Tutsi holed up in the buildings of the technical school were repeatedly subject to scattered attacks by bands of roving thugs. Many died in this first wave of massacres, but the targeted Tutsi managed to defend their positions. After defending themselves for a few days using stones, the Tutsi were overrun on April 21. The French soldiers disappeared and the school was attacked by Hutu Interahamwe militiamen. Around 50,000 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. 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. Among the bodies currently displayed are many children and infants. Before the end of the visit the Vice Rector of Academic affairs of ILPD delivered the check of 500,000 RWF to the memorial site to support its activities.