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Hundreds of Rwandan protest the passivity of the international community during a symbolic state funeral to mark the anniversary of the start of the ethnic massacre of hundreds of thousands of people in 1994, on April 7, 1995 in front of the Nyamirambo South district stadium in Kigali where two hundred large wooden crates each containing the remains of several victims of the genocide and 15 individual coffins will be displayed before the funeral. A total of 200 coffins containing some 6000 victims were buried. On April 6, 1994, the death of the Presidents of Burundi and Rwanda in a plane crash caused by a rocket attack, triggered several weeks of systematic and large-scale massacres targeting the Tutsi population and moderate Hutus in Rwanda. The number of murdered victims of the Rwandan genocide is about 800,000. Between 150,000 and 250,000 women were also raped. (Photo by Christophe SIMON / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP via Getty Images)

Today in history for April 7

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In 1994 violence erupts in Rwanda, foreshadowing genocide.

On April 7, 1994, violence fuels the launch of what would become the worst episode of genocide since World War II: the massacre of an estimated 500,000 to 1 million innocent civilian Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Following the first wave of massacres, Rwandan forces manage to discourage international… read more

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