Rwandan genocide

Rwandan genocide, April to July 1994 The killing began after an April 6 plane crash killed the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi: members of the presidential guard started murdering Tutsi civilians, along with moderate Hutu leaders, and the slaughter spread until the Rwandan Patriotic Front took control in July. The UN estimates more than one million people died. As it happened, the UN peacekeeping force was cut from 2,165 troops to 270, and that failure to act became the reference point for every later debate about intervention.