- It is believed that the African/Rwanda genocide started after the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana ‘s plane was shot down and he was killed.
- A French judge has blamed current Rwandan President, Paul Kagame – at the time the leader of a Tutsi rebel group – and some of his close associates for carrying out the rocket attack.
- With in hours of the attack a campaign of violence brake out thought the country.
- Ethnic tension in Rwanda is nothing new. There have been always been disagreements between the majority Hutus and minority Tutsis, but the animosity between them has grown substantially since the colonial period.
- During the genocide, the bodies of Tutsis were thrown into rivers, with their killers saying they were being sent back to Ethiopia.
- In August 1993, after several attacks a peace treaty was signed between Habyarimana and the RPF
- over a span of 100 days or more that at least 500,000 people where killed
- the estimated death toll so far is from 500,000 to 1,000,000 people
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3580247.stm
- April 6, 1994– rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana’s was killed after his plane was shot down.
- April 7, 1994- rwandan armed forces and Interahamwe militia began killing tutsis and hutus. 10 peace keepers are killed
- April 8, 1994- the tutsi rwandan armed forces launched a major offense to end the killings and rescued 600 of their troops stationed in Kigali under the Arusha accords
- April 9-10, 1994- french, belgian, and American civilians are rescued by their government.
- April 11, 1994- the international red cross estimates that tens of thousands of people where slaguhterd. U.N. soldiers protecting 2,000 tutsis at a school are orderd to withdraw to Kigali airport but most where killed after departure
- April 14, 1994- Belgium withdrew it soldiers from the U.N. peacekeeping force
- April 15, 1994- slaguhter of tens of thousands of tutsis gatherd at Nyarubuye Church seeking protection
- April 21, 1994- the UN cuts its forces by 90% leaving 270 troops in rwanda
- April 30, 1994- tens of thousands of refugees flee into neighbouring Burundi, Tanzania, and Zaire after the UN agrees a resoultion comending the killing but omits the word “genocide”
- Mid-May, 1994– the IRC estimates that around 500,000 rwandans where killed
- May 17, 1994– the UN secrutiy council issued a fresh resoultion saying that ‘acts of genocide have been comited’. 5,500 troops with new powers where sent to defend civillians however deployment was delayed becasuse of a disagreement between the US and the UN over the financianing of the operation
- May 22, 1994- RPF forces take over the nothern and eatern part of rwanda after they gain control of Kigali airport and Kanombe barraks.
- June 22, 1994- with argument’s over the deployments still continuing the UN authorises an emergency of force of 2,500 french troops under operation Turquoise to create a ‘safe’ area of government-controlled part of rwanda.
- July 4, 1994- the RPF took control of kigali and southern town of Butare. its leadership claims it will form a government on the basis of the Arusha accords
- July 13-14, 1994- refugees fled the RPF advance in northwestern rwanda into Zaire and approximately 10,000 to 12,000 crossed the border into the town of Goma
- July 18, 1994- the RPF announces that the war is over and declares a cease fire.
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Dillon,
I really liked the way these notes were written. It was laid out very nice and organized, and overall it was very easy to read! I noticed a couple grammar errors that you may want to go back in and fix. Overall very informative!
Riley