RWANDA GENOCIDE TIMELINE

BELGIANS TAKE CONTROLL

May 18, 1918

belgians take over, rwanda losses independence.

I.D

Jun 1, 1933

everyone issued mandate card claaifying them as hutu tutsi or twa.

rebillion

Jan 7, 1959

hutu clan begin to rebell aginst the tutsi annd belgian goverment

MONCHARY ABOLISHED

Jan 1, 1961

Tutsi monchary ios abolished by the cruel belgian colonizers.

FREEDOM?

Jul 1, 1962

Rwanda wins independence. Europeans left due to the power Hutu's were gaing over Tutsi's.

CONTROL

Mar 8, 1973

Juvénal Habyarimana takes over as rawanda's president.

RFP

Aug 19, 1987

stands for the Rawanda patriotic front created by the Tutsi refugee diaspora in Uganda.

COFEE SALES PLUMMET

Oct 1, 1989

Cofee sells plumett which really has a huge effect on rwanda since cofee was a major cash crop.

CIVIL WAR

Apr 4, 1990

the RPF invaded northern Rwanda from Uganda in an attempt to defeat the Hutu-led government. They began the Rwandan Civil War, fought between the Hutu regime, with support from Africa and France RPF, with support from Uganda.

Political partys

Apr 28, 1991

this day begain the new constitution to allow many different political party's.the Mouvement démocratique républicain (MDR), the Parti Social Démocrat (PSD), the Parti Libéral (PL), and the Parti Démocratique Centriste (PDC).

Spreading hate?

Jul 8, 1993

RTLM (Radio Télévison des Milles Collines begins broadcasting.
it projected racist propaganda against Tutsis, moderate Hutus, Belgians, and the United Nations mission UNAMIR.Félicien Kabuga was heavily involved in the founding and bankrolling of RTLm.

ARUSHA ACCORDS

Aug 4, 1993

Arusha accords were created and agrreed uoon that both the Hutu and Tutsi could hold government postion.

president dead

Apr 6, 1994

Rwanda's president Juvénal Habyarimana along with the president of Burundi Cyprian Ntayamira is killed when his plane is shot out of the sky.

killings begin

Apr 9, 1994

Massacre at Gikondo hundreds of Tutsis are killed in the Pallottine Missionary Catholic Church. Others were severly injured

another killing

Apr 16, 1994

Massacre at the Nyarubuye Roman Catholic Church - thousands of Tutsi are killed, first by grenades and guns and then by machetes and clubs. ahautu speaks sying they want revenge.

TRYING TO FIND SAFETY

Apr 28, 1994

More than 250,000 people mostly of the tutsi populations run to there neighboring countrys tanzania

New leauge

May 23, 1994

RPF take control of presidential palace in Rwanda.

SAFETY ZONE

Jul 5, 1994

France establish a safety zone in the southwest corner of rawanda

FLEETING

Jul 13, 1994

Approximately one million people, mostly Hutu, begin fleeing to Zaire (now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

END OF THE WAR

Jul 23, 1994

The Rwanda Genocide ends when the RPF gains control of the country.