We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with out families. Allen T, David M
By Allen3102
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In 1993, President Juvénal Habyarimana signs a power-sharign agreement with the Tutsis
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Bill Clinton was elected president in 1993
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Philip Gourevitch, the author, visits a church where many Tutsis were killed in cold blood
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Eventually, the Hutus started to kill the Tutsis. The tutsis were killed in cold blood by neighbors, friends, and Hutus at random
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Just a few months after the genocide started, the UN deployed peacekeepers, soliders that help countires destroyed by conflict.
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By June 1994, nearly 1,00,000 Tutsis were killed in coldblood
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Throught the Rwandan genocide, Hutus would take over land and knockdown refugee camps
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Corpses were covered with leaves sp that pictures from above would not be taken.
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In 1994, the Government of National Unity is formed. This is a government that is used when there is a war going on
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After spending 27 years in jail for conspiring to overthrow the state, Nelson finally became the first President of South Africa
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During the Rwandan Genocide, the popular case relating to O.J Simpson was going on. O.J. was on trial for the murder of his wife and Goldman
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At the end of 1994 going into 1995, the popular website "Amazon" and the other popular website "YAHOO!" launched
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Kurt Cobain was the creater and lead singer of the popular band "Nirvana", many people were crushed when finding the unfrourtuante news of his suicicde
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President of Rwanda, Juvénal Habyarimana, and President of Burundian, Cyprien Ntaryamira, were both in a plane that was shot down. There were two groups that were suspects of this: RPF( Rwandan Patriotic Front) and the Hutus.
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On April 7, 1994, the FAR started to kill both Hutus and Tutsi. They were both blamed for the cause of the death of the two presidents.
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In 1995, a year after the killing, at least thirty-three thousand men, women, and children had been arrested for alleged participation in genocide. At the end of that year, the number had climbed to sixty thousand.
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The constitutional court is formally opened by president Nelson Mendel
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In 1996 mortality rates in the central prison were reported to be lower than among the Rwanda population at large.
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3 April, Five members of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) are sentenced to twenty-six years imprisonment each for their part in a bombing campaign in which twenty people were killed and hundreds injured, aimed at disrupting the 1994 elections.
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By the end of 1997, at least a hundred twenty-five thousand Hutus accused of crimes during the genocide were incarcerated in Rwanda.
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December 20, President Nelson Mandela steps down as leader of South Africa's governing African National Congress.
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In the early 1998's, Rwanda's war against the genocide still continues
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The FIFA World Cup was held in France and France won the Cup
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21 August, former President P.W. Botha (82) is convicted of ignoring a subpoena to testify about apartheid atrocities in front of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He is fined $1,577 and given a suspended 1 year jail sentence.
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16 February, the four police officers charged with the fatal beating of Steve Biko are denied amnesty.
