Heroes+of+the+Rwandan+Genocide

=Heroes of the Rwandan Genocide=

__Who helped out the Victims of the Rwandan Genocide:__

 * Airman from Ramstein Air Base
 * Germany
 * 787th AES

__Several individual Heroes that contributed to the Rwandan Genocide__

 * A Hutu named Froduald Karuhije, a house builder, hid fourteen refugees in the Gitarama/Nyanza region.
 * Father Vieko Curic, an ex-Yugoslavian priest, saved and sheltered100 victims in the Norht/Gitarama region.
 * Callixte Ndagijimana and Jean-Marie Gisagara, both Hutu burgomasters, were involved in exhorting and fighting against the armed forces. Ndagijmana was near the Gitarama/Nyanza region, and Gisagara was near the Butare/Nyanaza region, both were killed.
 * Dr. Wolfgang Blam, a German physiciaan married to a Tutsi woman, fed/gave water to the Tutsi, refused to leave his wife, he managed to flee the violence along with his wife to Kiguye Town.
 * Father Celestin Hakizmana, a Hutu priest, gave shelter to about 1,500 refugees in his church, located in Downtown Kigali.
 * Therese Nyirabayovu, a Hutu Woman, hid/took care of refugees, in Kigali Town.
 * Father Jean-Bosco Munyaneza, a Hutu priest, welcomed refugees, took care of them, then organized their resistance, fought alongside them and got killed with them.
 * Paul Kamanzi, a Hutu shopkeeper, r efused to leave his Tutsi friends, fought alongside them and got killed with them as well.




 * __Citations:__**

Cited by Capt.Erin Dorrance. 29 September 2006 [|http://www.catholicmil.org] (online website) []