Rwanda Finds Genocide Grave That Could Contain 30,000 Bodies

Refugees from Rwanda who have been forced to flee their homes by 12 days of ethnic carnage, are checked at Gasenyi border, about 144 miles northwest of Bujumbura, before being sent to a refugee camp on April 19, 1994. PASCAL GUYOT/AFP/Getty Images

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — A valley dam that authorities in Rwanda say could contain about 30,000 bodies has been discovered more than a quarter-century after the country’s genocide in which 800,000 ethnic Tutsi and Hutus who tried to protect them were killed.

The discovery is being called the most significant in years, and 50 bodies have been exhumed so far in efforts that are challenged by the East African nation’s CCP virus-related lockdown.