1994 in Rwanda

The following lists events that happened during 1994 in the Republic of Rwanda.

1994
in
Rwanda

Decades:
  • 1970s
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • 2000s
  • 2010s
See also:Other events of 1994
List of years in Rwanda

Incumbents

Events

April 6

May

  • May 17 - The United Nations agrees to send 6,800 troops to Rwanda to defend the civilians.[1]

July

  • July 4 - The Hutu government is finally defeated by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, thus ending the genocide.
  • July 18 - Rwandan Patriotic Front troops capture Gisenyi, forcing the interim government into Zaire.

August

  • August 21 - The Rwandan Patriotic Front controls the whole of Rwanda.[2]

References

  1. "Rwanda Chronology". Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  2. Notholt, Stuart (2008). Fields of Fire: An Atlas of Ethnic Conflict. Troubador Publishing. p. 2.24. ISBN 1-906510-47-4.
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