List of massacres in Rwanda

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

References

  1. ^ "WATUSI WAR DEAD PLACED AT 20,000". The New York Times. 1964-03-08. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
  2. ^ "Human Rights Developments". www.hrw.org. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Tribes Battle for Rwandan Capital; New Massacres Reported - The New York Times". The New York Times. 16 April 1994. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
  6. ^ "Numbers (HRW Report - Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda, March 1999)". www.hrw.org. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  7. ^ Rwanda: Civilians trapped in armed conflict
  8. ^ "October 23-28, 1997 – THE NYAKINAMA CAVE BOMBING - Therwandan". www.therwandan.com. 24 October 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  9. ^ "Nyakinama Cave bombing – Hutu Genocide".
  10. ^ "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.