St. Ignatius School, Kigali school, and is headmaster. He barely escaped the genocide that claimed seven in his family; he had just left for Jesuit studies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the time. Volunteers have included nine students from Mercer Island, Washington, who helped build a classroom at St. Ignatius in 2011. They note that Hutus and Tutsis of all backgrounds are integrated into the school. St. Ignatius School, Kigali St. Ignatius School, Rwanda, was founded by the Society of Jesus in the capital city Kigali in 2006. It is coeducational and includes kindergarten through high school. It relies heavily on
Kigali down near Kigali Airport. This was the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide, in which 500,000–1,000,000 Tutsi and politically moderate Hutu were killed in well-planned attacks on the orders of the interim government. Opposition politicians based in Kigali were killed on the first day of the genocide, and the city then became the setting for fierce fighting between the army (mostly Hutu) and the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). On 8 April, Rwandan government forces attacked the RPF base in the parliament building from several directions, but RPF troops successfully fought back. The RPF then began an attack from the north