Unsung Heroes Who Saved 1,000 Children From Rwanda Genocide

Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, the survivor who has now told the story of Rwanda's children's convoys (Credit: AFP)

The untold story of how around 1,000 children were rescued from Rwanda during the bloodiest and most chaotic days of its genocide is finally coming to light three decades after they were saved from the slaughter.

Aid workers risked their lives to get the children -- mostly orphans -- out to safety in neighbouring Burundi in a series of Swiss humanitarian convoys.