how long did the genocide in rwanda last?
Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass killing of an estimated 800,000 people. Over the course of approximately 100 days from the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana on April 6 through mid-July, at least 800,000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate. Other estimates of the death toll have ranged between 500,000 and 1,000,000 (a commonly quoted figure is 800,000) or as much as 20% of the country’s total population. On April 6, 1994, the airplane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira, the Hutu president of Burundi, was shot down as it prepared to land in Kigali. Both presidents died when the plane crashed. Responsibility for the attack was initially disputed, with both the RPF and Hutu extremists being blamed. In spite of disagreements about the identities of its perpetrators, the attack on the plane is to many observers the catalyst for the genocide. On April 6 and April 7, the staff of the Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR) and Colonel Theo
