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invasion
RPF guerillas invade Rwanda from Uganda. After fierce fighting in which French and Zairean troops are called in to assist the government, a cease fire is signed on March 29, 1991 -
Local Rwandan
Local Rwandan radios would use propaganda, an act against international law, to incite Hutus to violence. -
begin killing
Hutu extremists begin killing their political opponents -
civil war erupts in rwanda
Massacre at the Nyarubuye Roman Catholic Church - thousands of Tutsi are killed, first by grenades and guns and then by machetes and clubs.
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tribunal for rwanda
United Nations Tribunal for Rwanda announces first indictments against eight suspects; charges them with genocide and crimes against humanity
