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Major Incidents in Rwanda

The incidents listed below represent only a small fraction of deliberate and arbitrary killings, massacres and extrajudicial executions of unarmed Hutu civilians in Rwanda by soldiers of the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA).

Between 23 and 28 October 1997, 8000 unarmed civilians were killed by RPA soldiers in a large cave at Nyakimana,
On the morning of Friday, August 8, 1997, security forces killed an estimated 400 people at Mahoko market. Brigitte Tuyishime,
Hutu genocide and the killings in churches On 8 June 1997, Tutsi dominated RPA soldiers, under the high command of
Between 9 and 11 May 1997, at least 1,430 civilians were killed by RPA soldiers in the secteurs of Ryinyo,
On the 22nd of April 1995 more than 8,000 Rwandans were massacred and thousands more injured in Kibeho, an Internally
July 1994 Gitarama Roadblocks "Towards the end of the war of 1994, [2nd week of July 1994] the 59th battalion
Rwamagana slaughter site, as described in Judi Rever's book 'In Praise of Blood, The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front',
This is a story of Daniel from the commune of Gituza, a regional district of Byumba prefecture, North of Rwanda.
Kwitaba Imana and Kwitaba Inama In some places, RPF forces killed civilians at meetings organized soon after their arrival in
Thousands of Hutu peasants— men, women and children had been living in makeshift shelters in Nyacyonga internally displaced people's camp
April 7, 1994 - Remera killing of intellectuals As soon as the presidential plane was shot down, the RPF’s military