RWANDA GENOCIDE TIMELINE

  • BELGIANS TAKE CONTROLL

    BELGIANS TAKE CONTROLL
    belgians take over, rwanda losses independence.
  • I.D

    I.D
    everyone issued mandate card claaifying them as hutu tutsi or twa.
  • rebillion

    rebillion
    hutu clan begin to rebell aginst the tutsi annd belgian goverment
  • MONCHARY ABOLISHED

    MONCHARY ABOLISHED
    Tutsi monchary ios abolished by the cruel belgian colonizers.
  • FREEDOM?

    FREEDOM?
    Rwanda wins independence. Europeans left due to the power Hutu's were gaing over Tutsi's.
  • CONTROL

    CONTROL
    Juvénal Habyarimana takes over as rawanda's president.
  • RFP

    RFP
    stands for the Rawanda patriotic front created by the Tutsi refugee diaspora in Uganda.
  • COFEE SALES PLUMMET

    COFEE SALES PLUMMET
    Cofee sells plumett which really has a huge effect on rwanda since cofee was a major cash crop.
  • CIVIL WAR

    CIVIL WAR
    the RPF invaded northern Rwanda from Uganda in an attempt to defeat the Hutu-led government. They began the Rwandan Civil War, fought between the Hutu regime, with support from Africa and France RPF, with support from Uganda.
  • Political partys

    Political partys
    this day begain the new constitution to allow many different political party's.the Mouvement démocratique républicain (MDR), the Parti Social Démocrat (PSD), the Parti Libéral (PL), and the Parti Démocratique Centriste (PDC).
  • Spreading hate?

    Spreading hate?
    RTLM (Radio Télévison des Milles Collines begins broadcasting.
    it projected racist propaganda against Tutsis, moderate Hutus, Belgians, and the United Nations mission UNAMIR.Félicien Kabuga was heavily involved in the founding and bankrolling of RTLm.
  • ARUSHA ACCORDS

    ARUSHA ACCORDS
    Arusha accords were created and agrreed uoon that both the Hutu and Tutsi could hold government postion.
  • president dead

    president dead
    Rwanda's president Juvénal Habyarimana along with the president of Burundi Cyprian Ntayamira is killed when his plane is shot out of the sky.
  • killings begin

    killings begin
    Massacre at Gikondo hundreds of Tutsis are killed in the Pallottine Missionary Catholic Church. Others were severly injured
  • another killing

    another killing
    Massacre at the Nyarubuye Roman Catholic Church - thousands of Tutsi are killed, first by grenades and guns and then by machetes and clubs. ahautu speaks sying they want revenge.
  • TRYING TO FIND SAFETY

    More than 250,000 people mostly of the tutsi populations run to there neighboring countrys tanzania
  • New leauge

    New leauge
    RPF take control of presidential palace in Rwanda.
  • SAFETY ZONE

    SAFETY ZONE
    France establish a safety zone in the southwest corner of rawanda
  • FLEETING

    FLEETING
    Approximately one million people, mostly Hutu, begin fleeing to Zaire (now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
  • END OF THE WAR

    END OF THE WAR
    The Rwanda Genocide ends when the RPF gains control of the country.