* 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.

* The Rwandan Genocide – between 6 April 1994 until mid-July 1994 a mass killing of hundreds of thousands of Rwanda's Tutsis and Hutu political moderates occurred by the Hutu dominated government under the Hutu Power ideology.

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:

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

While the Rwandan Civil War was a complex sequence of violent episodes which included killers and victims on all sides, most historians agree with RPF's assertions that the 1994 genocide was a deliberate, methodical Hutu campaign to completely exterminate the Tutsis, and that plans for the genocide were well known in advance by European, American, and UN officials.

In 2001, four Rwandan citizens were convicted and given sentences from 12 to 20 years ' imprisonment for their involvement in 1994 Rwandan genocide.

President Clinton was criticized for not intervening to stop the Rwandan Genocide of 1994.

Medicine and clothing were provided to both Hutu and Tutsi Witnesses during 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 ).

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.

* Georges Ruggiu, radio presenter during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide ( born 1957 )

In 2007, the Andrew Young Foundation produced the documentary film Rwanda Rising, about Rwanda's progress since the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

The deaths immediately sparked the Rwandan Genocide and an estimated 800, 000 to 1, 000, 000 Rwandans were killed.

The deciding event in precipitating the First Congo War was the Rwandan genocide, which sparked a mass exodus of refugees known as the Great Lakes refugee crisis.

Movement for the Liberation of Congo ( MLC ), led by the warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba, attacked in August 1998, backed by Rwandan and Ugandan troops.

In October 2002, the new president was successful in getting occupying Rwandan forces to withdraw from eastern Congo ; two months later, an agreement was signed by all remaining warring parties to end the fighting and set up a Transition Government, the make-up of which would allow representation for all negotiating parties.

Retail trade, devastated by the war, has revived quickly, with many new small businesses established by Rwandan returnees from Uganda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

After the downing of the Rwandan and Burundian presidential plane 10 Belgian peackeepers were kidnapped, mutilated and murdered by the Hutu-dominated government army.

In addition to Rwandan forces, Laurent Kabila's AFDL ( Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo ) forces were also supported by Ugandan forces, with whom Kagame had trained in the late 1980s, which then invaded Eastern Zaire from the northeast.

In April, Rwandan Immigration proceeded to reject a work visa re-application by the Rwanda-based researcher for Human Rights Watch.

In October 2009 a Rwandan Green Party meeting was violently broken up by police, with authorities placing preventing the registration of the party or allowing it to run a candidate in the presidential election.

The initial RPF advance was halted by the lift of French arms to the Rwandan government.

In 2002, child soldiers were used by Rwandan government forces and paramilitaries, operating within the Democratic Republic of Congo.

* a Rwandan woman seemingly moments away from being killed by Tutsi militia during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide — she stayed on the phone with As It Happens up to the point when the attackers knocked on her door.