Rwandan genocide begins
April 6, 1994
A plane carrying Rwanda's Hutu president was shot down over Kigali, and within hours Hutu extremists began killing Tutsis and moderate Hutus in what had been carefully planned. In a hundred days perhaps eight hundred thousand were hacked to death with machetes, many by neighbors. The world, including the UN, watched and did nothing.
In context
Also in 1994 (5 other events on record)
- Mandela elected · Africa · Politics
- NAFTA and the Zapatista uprising · North America · Politics
- Channel Tunnel opens · Europe · Technology
- Republican Revolution · North America · Politics
- Comet Shoemaker-Levy hits Jupiter · North America · Science
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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