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Historic crimes & investigations · 7 April-4 July 1994Open article references →
Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda
Kigali and the national genocide memorial landscape · Rwanda
Why editors use it hereIndependent museum and prevention resource documenting preparation, perpetrators, victims, warning, and the continuing regional context.
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From April through July 1994, authorities, soldiers, militia, and civilian participants carried out a planned genocide against Rwanda's Tutsi population.
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Trigger and conditions
On 6 April, the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down near Kigali.
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Uncertainty
Death estimates vary because records were destroyed and identification continues.
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Why it matters
Rwanda demonstrates that genocide is built through institutions, propaganda, administrative records, armed organization, and repeated choices by people with different degrees of power.
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