The genocide was sparked by the death of the Rwandan President Javenal Habyariman.
The assassination of Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana in 1994 caused massive conflict between the Tutsi and Hutu ethnic groups. This conflict became the Rwandan genocide, which killed up to a million people in just 100 days.
After the Rwandan President's plane was shot down in 1994 it caused the the Hutu's to rebel, 6,000 strong in the violent executions of the Tutsis. It wasn't until 1996 that the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) seized control of the country and the killings stops. 1994-1996
The brutal genocide of almost a million Tutsis resulted from the death of Rwanda's president Habyarimana in 1994.
In 1994 there was the occurrency of the Rwandan genocide
April to July 1994
The Rwandan genocide.
The genocide took place in the context of the Rwandan Civil War, an ongoing conflict beginning in 1990 between the Hutu-led government and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which was largely composed of Tutsi refugees whose families had fled to Uganda following earlier waves of Hutu violence against the Tutsi. Most of the dead were Tutsis and most of those who perpetrated the violence were Hutus. The genocide was sparked by the death of the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, when his plane was shot down above Kigali airport on 6 April 1994.
The genocide ended in 1994.
the president was killed because his plane was shot on 6 April 1994 and he was a Hutu.
800,000 were massacred during ethnic conflicts.
The Rwandan Patriotic Front is a political party that was created in 1987. As of October 2014, Paul Kagame is the President of the party, as well as the President of the country.