assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira

When

6 Apr 1994

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

1.98° S, 30.17° E

Description

1994 assassination

Deaths

12

Injured

0

1994 aircraft shootdown in Rwanda

On the evening of 6 April 1994, the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira, both Hutu, was shot down with surface-to-air missiles as their jet prepared to land in Kigali, Rwanda; both were killed. The assassination set in motion the Rwandan genocide, one of the bloodiest events of the late 20th century.

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