* 1994 – The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.

* 1994 – Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.

* 1994 – Rwandan Genocide: Military advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down.

Many of the killings in the Rwandan Genocide were performed with machetes, and they were the primary weapon used by the Interahamwe militias there.

This tool has been used as a weapon: in the Rwandan Genocide ; in South Africa particularly in the 1980s and early 1990s when the former province of Natal was wracked by conflict between the African National Congress and the Zulu-nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party.

After the Rwandan Genocide, the Tutsi-led government began a major program to improve the country's economy and reduce its dependence on subsistence farming.

In addition, humanitarian intervention by multinational forces became more frequent and the media began to play a big role, particularly in the lead up to the 1999 NATO mission in Yugoslavia, while by contrast, the 1994 Rwandan Genocide had little attention.

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Rwandan Genocide: Genocide victims in Murambi Technical School.

Estimates put the death toll of the Rwandan Genocide as high as 800, 000 people.

This was the beginning of decades of ethnic violence in the country, which culminated in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

** Théoneste Bagosora, former Rwandan army officer and alleged planner of the Rwandan Genocide

* Félicien Kabuga, Rwandan businessman, accused of bankrolling and participating in the Rwandan Genocide

Even the occurrences of the Rwandan Genocide and the Second Congo War, termed as " Africa's World War " that involved 8 separate African nations which together between the two killed over 5 million people ; didn't seem to have any noticeable negative financial impact on the Dow either.

A peace agreement was signed, but violence erupted again, culminating in the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, when Hutu extremists killed an estimated 800, 000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsis.

The fighting culminated in the Hutu mass killings of Tutsi and Hutu in the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, in which the Hutu then in power killed an estimated 500, 000 – 1, 000, 000 people, largely of Tutsi origin.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ( ICTR ) () is an international court established in November 1994 by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 955 in order to judge people responsible for the Rwandan Genocide and other serious violations of international law in Rwanda, or by Rwandan citizens in nearby states, between 1 January and 31 December 1994.

Romeo Dallaire, force commander in Rwanda during the Rwandan Genocide there, described the problems this poses by comparison to more traditional military deployments:

* 1941 – Théoneste Bagosora, Rwandan army officer

* 1994 – Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Rwandan politician, Prime Minister of Rwanda ( b. 1953 )

* 1977 – Corneille Nyungura, Rwandan / Canadian singer

* 1957 – Paul Kagame, Rwandan politician, 6th President of Rwanda

* October 1 – The rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front invades Rwanda from Uganda, marking the start of the Rwandan Civil War.

* September 29 – Benjamin Sehene, Rwandan writer

Le Monde diplomatique analyzed the post-Cold War world, paying specific attention to " ethnic " conflicts – the wars in former Yugoslavia, the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, the conflicts in the Caucasus, etc.

Flag of Rwanda ( 1962 – 2001 ), changed after being disgraced by the Rwandan Genocide | 1994 genocide

He worked with MSF since 1992 in a number of settings – including Goma, Zaire ( now Democratic Republic of Congo ) in the fall of 1996 during the Rwandan refugee crisis ; Kigali, Rwanda during the 1994 genocide ; and Baidoa, Somalia during the civil war and famine of 1992-93.

In terms of balance, the HRW and Melvern analyses omitted countervailing facts known as of their writing – specifically, that there were no arms delivery by France or facilitated by France once it deemed large-scale killings likely, let alone during the mass genocide proper ; and that one of the tasks that the Rwandan regime hired Barril for was to recover a pre-payment for a likely fraudulent arms delivery deal, that was stopped by the French authorities.

The political character of that investigation was in turn further averred when the commission issued its report solely to Kagame – symbolically on November 17, 2007, exactly one year after Bruguière's announcement – and the head of the Rwandan commission, Jean de Dieu Mucyo, stated that the commission would now " wait for President Kagame to declare whether the inquiry was valid.

Agathe Uwilingiyimana ( 23 May 1953 – 7 April 1994 ) was a Rwandan political figure.

In response to the Rwandan Genocide ( 1994 ) and the Yugoslav Wars ( 1991 – 1995 ) that followed the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, Human Rights First began focusing considerable attention on how to hold the perpetrators of mass atrocities legally responsible.

* Seth Sendashonga ( 1951 – 1998 ), Rwandan politician

The term Genocidal Massacre, was introduced by Leo Kuper ( 1908 – 1994 ) to describe incidents with a genocidal component but which are committed on a smaller scale when compared to genocides such as the Rwandan Genocide.

It played a significant role during the April – July 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

Elizaphan Ntakirutimana ( 1924, Kibuye, Rwanda – January 22, 2007, Arusha, Tanzania ) was a pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Rwanda and was the first clergyman to be convicted for a role in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

Intergroup conflict can be highly competitive, especially for social groups with a long history of conflict ( for example, the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, rooted in group conflict between the ethnic Hutu and Tutsi ).

The socioeconomic divide between Tutsis and Hutus continued after independence and was a major factor in the Rwandan Genocide.

Tension between Tutsi and Hutu had been escalating through the 1950s, culminating in the 1959 Rwandan Revolution.

In 1992, Peace talks between the RPF and the Rwandan government resulted in the Arusha accords, including political participation of the RPF in Rwanda.

* In his multipart Rwanda Project, executed between 1994 and 2000 in response to the Rwandan genocide, Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar sent Rwandan tourist postcards to his friends around the world, mailed from neighboring Uganda, bearing the names of people who he'd encountered while travelling in Rwanda, reversing the self-referential content of On Kawara's work ' I am Still Alive '; " Jyamiya Muhawenimawa is still alive!

Since then it has been caught up in the conflict between Hutu and Tutsi people in Rwanda, and their allies in DR Congo, which led to the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and the First and Second Congo Wars.

It follows a three year campaign by 180 Rwandan soldiers, supervised by the Mine Awareness Trust and trained in Kenya, to remove over 9, 000 mines laid in the country between 1990 and 1994.

Its activities were meant to aid the peace process between the Hutu-dominated Rwandese government and the Tutsi-dominated rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front ( RPF ).

What followed was the collapse of the unstable peace in Rwanda and the Rwandan Genocide, estimated to have claimed between 800, 000 and 1, 017, 100 Tutsi and Hutu victims over 100 days.

In 1999, the city was the site of the first open fighting between Ugandan and Rwandan forces in the Second Congo War, when nearly 3, 000 people died in the cross fire.

The local population was caught in the cross fire between Ugandan and Rwandan military forces which led to the destruction of about a quarter of the city.

More clashes between Rwandan and Ugandan led to thousands more deaths and widespread destruction on June 5, 2000.

They began the Rwandan Civil War, fought between the Hutu regime, with support from Francophone Africa and France, and the RPF, with support from Uganda.

The presence of Hutu refugees ( see Great Lakes refugee crisis ) on the border with Rwanda, added to internal instability, contributed to the First and Second Congo Wars, with clashes between these groups and the Rwandan government continuing.

The Special Rapporteur on Rwanda estimated that between 2, 000 and 5, 000 pregnancies resulted from war rape ( between 250, 000 and 500, 000 Rwandan women and girls had been raped ).

The talks between President Habyarimana, Uwilingiyimana, and the Rwandan Patriotic Front were never concluded, because the president's plane was shot down by rockets at around 8: 30 pm on 6 April 1994.

Inside the house, the family was protected by the Rwandan presidential guard, but between 6: 55 and 7: 15 am the presidential guard surrounded the U. N. troops and told them to lay down their arms.

He has traveled internationally to speak on behalf of the Rwandan people and repeatedly called for peace and harmony between the different groups.