Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) rebels inspect the wreckage of the plane in which Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana was killed, May 26, 1994. Photo by Corinne Dufka/Reuters.

But no plane crash involving a world leader has led to the kind of consequences that followed the death of Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana on April 6, 1994.

In just three months, an estimated 800,000 people were massacred in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. BBC News Online examines the causes.

We will witness in the coming articles, we will look at how the 2nd republic, led by President Juvenal Habyarimana, performed and how it ended. The Second Republic (1973-1994) ...

I have obtained, and am posting here, the first English-language copy of a massive new report by a Rwandan investigative commission into the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana, the ...

Six days after Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana was assassinated and the killings began in Kigali, Washington Post photographer Michael S. Williamson arrived at the hillside in Ngara ...

French judges have dropped a long-running investigation into the shooting down of a plane carrying the former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana. His death in 1994 was a trigger of the genocide.

In this Oct. 18, 1990 file photo, Rwanda President Juvenal Habyarimana speaks at a press conference after meeting French President Francois Mitterrand In Paris, France.

Updated 3:50 p.m. ET. French authorities on Tuesday briefly detained the widow of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, who is being sought by Rwanda on charges related to the nation's 1994 ...