Rwanda: Hell and Healing - Rwanda Twenty Years On

21 March 2014
analysis

In the early morning of April 7, 1994 all hell broke loose in Rwanda. A few hours earlier, President Habyarimana's plane had been shot down and crashed in the garden of his own palace.

He was returning from a regional summit in Tanzania about the implementation of the peace agreement between the regime, based on the Hutu majority, and the Tutsi rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), who had grown up in the Rwandan refugee camps in Uganda and had started an armed struggle in October 1990.

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