Alex Richards
Donor
April 6th 1994 saw one of the most momentous events in African history of the last 20 years, when the plan carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and President Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi was shot down by still unknown assassins, killing both of them. Habyarimana had been President of Rwanda since 1974, but had moved from a relatively moderate regime to one which increasingly favoured a small group of close supporters, all Hutus of extreme ethnocentric viewpoints. Ntaryamira meanwhile was a compromise candidate selected to end the civil war that had been sparked by the election, and subsequent assassination, of Melchior Ndadaye the previous October.
The assassination was to prove to have some of the bloodiest consequences in history, being the direct catalyst for both the Rwandan Genocide and the reintensification of the Burundian Civil War which would last for another decade, and in turn pretty much directly leading onto the First Congo War.
So, assuming the plane lands successfully at Kigali, what are the effects?
The assassination was to prove to have some of the bloodiest consequences in history, being the direct catalyst for both the Rwandan Genocide and the reintensification of the Burundian Civil War which would last for another decade, and in turn pretty much directly leading onto the First Congo War.
So, assuming the plane lands successfully at Kigali, what are the effects?