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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
^"WATUSI WAR DEAD PLACED AT 20,000". The New York Times. 1964-03-08. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
^"Human Rights Developments". www.hrw.org. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
^See, e.g., Rwanda: How the genocide happened, BBC, May 17, 2011, which gives an estimate of 800,000, and OAU sets inquiry into Rwanda genocide, Africa Recovery, Vol. 12 1#1 (August 1998), p. 4, which estimates the number at between 500,000 and 1,000,000. Seven out of every 10 Tutsis were killed.
^"Folha de S.Paulo - Massacre em igreja de Ruanda mata 1.180 - 16/4/1994". Folha de S.Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 16 April 1994. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
^"Tribes Battle for Rwandan Capital; New Massacres Reported - The New York Times". The New York Times. 16 April 1994. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
^"Numbers (HRW Report - Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda, March 1999)". www.hrw.org. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
^Rwanda: Civilians trapped in armed conflict
^"October 23-28, 1997 – THE NYAKINAMA CAVE BOMBING - Therwandan". www.therwandan.com. 24 October 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
^"Nyakinama Cave bombing – Hutu Genocide".
^"SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES PROFOUND SHOCK AT 'SAVAGERY' OF ATTACK AT MUDENDE CAMP IN NORTH-WESTERN RWANDA - UN Press". UN Press. 1997-12-12. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
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