Rwanda - Dangerous Days

 

01/28Democracy Day.
04/06/94President Juvenal Habyarimana is killed in a plane crash, sparking nationwide fighting.
04/28/97Rebels murder 17 schoolgirls and a Belgian nun.
06/01/97Perhaps 250,000 Hutu Rwandan refugees are feared dead in a slaughter by Congo President Laurent Kabila's rebel troops in eastern Congo.
06/18/97Two U.N. World Food Program employees are killed by gunmen.
07/01Anniversary of Independence.
07/04/94Rwandan rebels capture the capital of Kigali and the last major government-held southern town of Butare.
07/05National Peace and Unity Day.
07/15/94A tidal wave of Rwandan refugees pours into neighboring Zaire.
07/18/94The rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) claims it has won Rwanda's civil war.
07/19/94Pasteur Bizimungu is sworn in as president at a ceremony at the parliament building in the capital of Kigali. Rebel commander Major General Paul Kagame is named vice president and defense minister.
08/12/94Thousands of Rwandan refugees begin moving toward Zaire from southwest Rwanda.
10/26Armed Forces Day.
11/01/96Rwanda war crimes trial resumes in Arusha, Tanzania.


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