11.   The killings began when the Hutu tried to run through the military cordon, and government soldiers opened fire.

12.   The killing began immediately after an airplane carrying the Rwandan president, Juvenal Habyarimana, was downed as he returned from a peace conference in Tanzania.

13.   The killings began when the Islamic Salvation Front was suppressed, and they have increased markedly in cruelty and scale, especially in the last two years.

14.   The refugees, many of them women and children, had arrived from the surrounding hills after killings had begun there.

15.   Then the killing began.

16.   Those officials and independent experts say the Clinton administration effectively blocked international involvement for months, even after the killings had begun to run their destructive course.

17.   Though the United States now backs the new Tutsi-led government there, United Nations peacekeepers chose not to intervene when the killings began.

18.   When the killings began, Tutsis fled to churches for protection.

19.   With that, the killing begins.

20.   Within minutes, the killings began.