Rwanda: Timeline

1000   The Hutu Hutu

Hutu is the name given to one of the three ethnic groups occupying Burundi [i] and Rwanda [i]. ... 

 arrive in present-day Rwanda and Burundi Burundi

Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi, is a small country in the Great Lakes [i] ... 

, soon outnumbering the native Twa Twa

The Twa are a pygmy [i] people, of short stature, who were the oldest recorded inhabitants of the Great Lakes [i] ... 

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1962   Rwanda and Burundi Burundi

Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi, is a small country in the Great Lakes [i] ... 

 gain independen

1985   American naturalist Dian Fossey Dian Fossey

Dian Fossey was an American ethologist [i] interested in gorilla [i]s. ... 

 is found murdered in Rwanda.

1994   Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and president of Burundi Burundi

Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi, is a small country in the Great Lakes [i] ... 

 Cyprien Ntaryamira died when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali, Rwanda. This is taken as a pretext to begin the Rwandan Genocide.

1994   Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and president of Burundi Burundi

Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi, is a small country in the Great Lakes [i] ... 

 Cyprien Ntaryamira died when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali, Rwanda. This is taken as a pretext to begin the Rwandan Genocide.

1994   The Rwandan Genocide begins in Kigali, Rwanda.

1994   Red Cross estimates that hundreds of thousands of Tutsi have been killed in Rwanda.

1997   In northwest Rwanda, Hutu Hutu

Hutu is the name given to one of the three ethnic groups occupying Burundi [i] and Rwanda [i]. ... 

 militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.

1998   A United Nations United Nations

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 court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of 9 counts of genocide Genocide

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide [i] Article 2 as "any of the following a ... 

, marking the first time that the 1948 law banning genocide is enforced.

1999   Rwandan Hutu Hutu

Hutu is the name given to one of the three ethnic groups occupying Burundi [i] and Rwanda [i]. ... 

 rebels kill and hack to pieces eight foreign tourists at the Buhoma homestead, Uganda Uganda

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a country in East Africa [i], bordered in the east b ... 

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