The archives of the security services, the Service Central de Renseignements (SCR), attached to the office of the president, were found to be intact, including detailed and substantial files on 44,000 citizens. This archive revealed the full horror of a quota system used to restrict the participation of Tutsi in public life and discriminate against them. Here were the reports of the state employees who had conducted investigations to find out if people were ‘pure Hutu’ or whether they were secretly Tutsi and faking their identity.
