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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.
Years
1916
1931
1959
1961
1962
1963
1973
1987
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
Months
January
February
August
October
January 1993
Jean Carbonare, Chairman of an international commission of enquiry, says that he saw French instructors at the Bigogwe camp, where “truckloads of civilians were being brought.
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8 January 1993
Colonel Théoneste Bagosora, a Rwandan military officer, leaves Arusha saying : “I am returning to Kigali to prepare the Tutsi apocalypse”
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21 January 1993
Violent demonstrations by MRND and CDR, massacres against Tutsi start again. Arusha negotiations are suspended.
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8 – 20 February 1993
The RPF relaunches a military offensive. The FAR retreat. The RPF stops at Shyorongi at the entrance of Kigali.
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20 – 22 February 1993
Fresh massacres of Tutsi by CDR and MRND militias in Gisenyi, Ruhengeri, Kibuye and Byumba prefectures.
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4 August 1993
Radio-Television Libre de Mille collines (RTLM), created in July, begins propaganda programmes against the Tutsi.
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5 October 1993
UN Resolution 872 establishes the United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR), comprising 2,500 peacekeepers
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