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Antonia Locatelli (16 November 1937 – 10 March 1992) was an Italian Roman Catholic missionary educator who had lived in 
Antonia Locatelli: Biography - Comune di Padova (Italian)
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Antonia Locatelli (16 November 1937 – 10 March 1992) was an Italian Roman Catholic missionary educator who had lived in Rwanda
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since the early 1970s.
In March 1992, she witnessed massacres of the Tutsis taking place in the Bugesera region, south of Kigali. In an attempt to save 300 to 400 Tutsis, she phoned the Belgian embassy, French RFI Radio and the BBC.
On the night between 9 and 10 March 1992, she was gunned down by a group of presidential guards who had arrived from Kigali.
Her murder was announcend on RFI the next morning:
Antonia Locatelli is buried in Nyamata, near the church
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in which, during the Rwandan genocide two years later, ten thousand Tutsis were massacred.
During the commemoration ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide (Kigali, April 7, 2019), Paul Kagame paid tribute to Antonia in his opening speech:
References
Books
* P. Costa–L. Scalettari, La lista del console, published by Paoline, Milan, 2004, page 43. * André Sibomana, J’accuse per il Rwanda, published by Gruppo Abele, Turin, 1998, pages 65 and 117.External links
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