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Rwandan government estimated death toll at 330 Gikondo massacre: April 9, 1994 Gikondo, Kigali: 110 part of the Rwandan genocide. Nyakimana cave massacre: October 23-October 28,1997 Gisenyi Province: 5,000-8,000 [7] RPF bombing of alleged Hutu displaced persons [8] [9] Mudende camp massacre December 10, 1997 Northwest Rwanda 231-300 [10]
By late 1996, Hutu militants from the camps were launching regular cross-border incursions, and the RPF-led Rwandan government launched a counteroffensive. [306] Rwanda provided troops and military training to the Banyamulenge, [305] a Tutsi group in the Zairian South Kivu province, [307] helping them to defeat Zairian security forces. Rwandan ...
In February and March 1962 Inyenzi conducted two raids in the prefecture of Biumba, killing several Hutu policemen and civil servants. From 26 to 27 March the Hutu population of the prefecture retaliated by killing 1,000–2,000 Tutsi civilians, burning their homes, and looting their property.
Rwanda is preparing to mark the 30th anniversary of the East African nation's most horrific period in history — the genocide against its minority Tutsi. Delegations from around the world will ...
Rwanda marked the 30th anniversary on Sunday. * In 1990, rebels of the Tutsi-dominated Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) invaded northern Rwanda from neighbouring Uganda. The RPF's success prompted ...
The massacres in the region of Bugesera took place from March 5th to March 9th 1992, during which 277 people were killed and 15,000 were forced to flee their homes. Rwandan media, particularly Radio Rwanda , played an important role in spreading anti-Tutsi propaganda in the months leading up to the attacks culminating on March 3 when the ...
The ethnic Hutu militia involved in killing up to 800,000 people - the vast majority from the Tutsi community - fled to what is now DR Congo, some forming the Democratic Forces for the Liberation ...
The multivolume report implicates proponents of Hutu Power in the attack and Philip Gourevitch states, "two months ago, on the day after Rwanda's admission to the Commonwealth, France and Rwanda reestablished normal diplomatic relations. Before that happened, of course, the Rwandans had shared the about-to-be-released Mutsinzi report with the ...