1.   Charles grew up on St. Croix in the Virgin Islands and was educated in a convent by Belgian nuns.

2.   Soon afterward he was hiding in the forest from leftist rebels, clad in leaves and heavily drugged, who randomly murdered with machetes and raped Belgian nuns.

3.   Three Belgian nuns, a Belgian priest and many more African mission workers died at Yambuku.

4.   Four neighbours and a Belgian nun who ran another school in Muramba were also killed.

5.   A Belgian nun explained that local Hutu authorities had ordered in April that the nuns be gathered in Kibuye, saying they would be protected.

6.   At Cyangugu, Belgian nuns crossed the border to Zaire as soon the violence broke out leaving two Rwandan nuns at the mission.

7.   Sister Edith, a Belgian nun, holds two children in her arms who lost their parents on the road between Kibumba and Mugunga.