List_of_massacres_in_Rwanda

List of massacres in Rwanda

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Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Notes
Bugesera invasion	December 21-27 1963	Various	10,000-20,000 ^[1]	Reprisals for attack by exiled Tutsis 5% of Tutsis in Rwanda killed
1991 Bagogwe massacre	January-March 1991	Northwest Rwanda	300^[2]	Reprisal for RPF offensive
Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira	6 April 1994	Kigali	12	12 people, including Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira were killed when their airplane was shot down. The shootdown was the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide	7 April – 15 July 1994	Various	500,000–1,000,000^[3]	70% of Tutsis exterminated, 30% of Twa killed
Musha Church massacre	13 April 1994	Rutoma sector, Gikoro commune, Kigali	1,180-1,200^[4]^[5]	Part of the Rwandan genocide
Murambi Technical School massacre	April 18 – 21, 1994	Murambi Technical School	5,000–20,000^[6]	Part of the Rwandan genocide.
Ntarama Massacre	15 April 1994	Ntarama church, Ntarama	5,000	Part of the Rwandan genocide.
Nyarubuye massacre	April 15-16, 1994	Kibungo Province	20,000	Part of the Rwandan genocide.
Kibeho Massacre	April 22, 1995	near Kibeho	4000+	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]	Hutu guerilla attack on Tutsi refugee camp

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