President Juvenal Habyarimana, though Rwandan, had immediate family ties in Uganda during his presidency. Gregoire Kayibanda reportedly had Congolese roots, with some identifying him as either ...

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It was April 1994. The day after Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana’s plane was shot down, the capital erupted in violence. Thousands of Tutsis—and some moderate Hutus—fled in search of ...

Most egregiously, it ignored the assassination of two African presidents—Juvénal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi—whose plane was shot down on April 6, 1994. This attack, ...

The inciting factor of the genocide is often attributed to a plane attack on April 6, 1994 that killed Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira, both of whom ...

The genocide was ignited on April 6, 1994, when a plane carrying President Juvénal Habyarimana, a member of the Hutu majority, was shot down as it prepared to land in Rwanda's capital ...

Frank, who had been with the Rwandan Patriotic Army since its inception and had fought (and been wounded) in the campaign against the Habyarimana government between 1990 and 1994, was always on hand ...