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Romeo Dallaire sends warning to the UN of an impending genocide. It contains information from an informant about weapon caches & death lists.
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Thousands of weapons, such as machetes, are imported, paid for by the French government.
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President Habyarimana dies when his plane is shot down over Kigali as it returns from talks with the RPF in Tanzania. Eye witnesses place French soldiers as being the culprits of this act.
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Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana and 10 Belgian soldiers guarding her are butchered by Hutu forces. Rwandan troops and the Hutu Interahamwe militia start the slaughter of Tutsis and moderate Hutus whose names have been put on death lists. In Kibeho thousands of Tutsis gathered in a church where they were bombed, shot, or hacked to death.
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Jean Kambanda is appointed interim Prime Minister. On a radio broadcast, shortly afterwards, he urges hutus to kill Tutsis & moderate Hutus.
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The Belgians withdraw their troops.
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Expatriates are evacuated en masse by government troops. Fewer than 30 white people were left in the country.
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Tutsi refugees gathered in Nyange church, were burned to death or killed as they tried to flee. Approximately 2000 people were killed.
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About 12,000 Tutsi men, women and children were murdered at Kibuye's stadium, church and in the surrounding countryside.
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In Butare, gasoline was used to set ablaze a builidng where 500 Tutsis were hiding.
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Hundereds of thousands of Hutu's involved in the slaughter of friends and neighbours, flee the country as their defeat seems imminent.
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