Timeline

Explore a timeline of events that occurred before, during, and after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.

Timeline

Explore a timeline of events that occurred before, during, and after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

14-15 January 1992

At a meeting in Paris between RPF emissaries and the French Government, Paul Dijoud tells the RPF delegation

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3 March 1992

Comminiqué read on Radio Rwanda inciting people to kill. Over 500 Tutsi are killed in Bugesera.

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9 March 1992

RFI interviews Antonia Locatelli, an Italian witness to the massacres of Tutsi in Bugesera. That evening she is murdered by gendarmes.

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May 1992

President Habyarimana’s MRND forms the Interahamwe militia group.

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22 November 1992

Léon Mugesera, senior member of the MRND, declares in Kabaya (Gisenyi) that: “As for you, Tutsis, you cockroaches. Let me tell you that your country is Ethiopia,

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Timeline

Timeline

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14-15 January 1992

3 March 1992

9 March 1992

May 1992

22 November 1992

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