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Rwandan Civil War: The Rwandan genocide began a few hours after the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana, with hundreds of thousands killed in the following 100 days.
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Rwandan Civil War
1990–1994 armed struggle in Rwanda
The Rwandan Civil War was a large-scale civil war in Rwanda which was fought between the Rwandan Armed Forces, representing the country's government, and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) from 1 October 1990 to 18 July 1994. The war arose from the long-running dispute…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Rwandan genocide
1994 mass murder in Rwanda
The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occurred from 7 April to 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. Over a span of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were systematically killed by Hutu…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira
1994 aircraft shootdown in Kigali, Rwanda
On the evening of 6 April 1994, the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira, both Hutu, was shot down with surface-to-air missiles as their jet prepared to land in Kigali, Rwanda; both were killed. The assassination set…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Juvénal Habyarimana
President of Rwanda from 1973 to 1994
Juvénal Habyarimana was a Rwandan politician and military officer who was the second president of Rwanda, from 1973 until his assassination in 1994. He was nicknamed Kinani, a Kinyarwanda word meaning "invincible".Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)