List of massacres in Rwanda

Name Date Location Deaths Notes
Bugesera invasion December 21-27 1963 Various 10,000-20,000 [1] Reprisals for attack by exiled Tutsis

5% of Tutsis in Rwanda killed

1991 Bagogwe massacre January-March 1991 Northwest Rwanda 300[2] Reprisal for RPF offensive
Rwandan genocide 7 April – 15 July 1994 Various 500,000–1,000,000[3] 70% of Tutsis exterminated, 30% of Twa killed
Murambi Technical School massacre April 18 – 21, 1994 Murambi Technical School 5,000–20,000[4] Part of the Rwandan genocide.
Ntarama Massacre 15 April 1994 Ntarama church, Ntarama 5,000 Part of the Rwandan genocide.
Nyarubuye massacre April 15-16, 1994 Kibungo Province 20,000 Part of the Rwandan genocide.
Kibeho Massacre April 22, 1995 near Kibeho 4000+ Rwandan government estimated death toll at 330
Gikondo massacre April 9, 1994 Gikondo, Kigali 110 part of the Rwandan genocide.
Mudende camp massacre December 10, 1997 Northwest Rwanda 231-300[5] Hutu guerilla attack on Tutsi refugee camp

References
  1. "WATUSI WAR DEAD PLACED AT 20,000". The New York Times. 1964-03-08. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
  2. "Human Rights Developments". www.hrw.org. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
  3. See, e.g., Rwanda: How the genocide happened, BBC, May 17, 2011, which gives an estimate of 800,000, and OAU sets inquiry into Rwanda genocide, Africa Recovery, Vol. 12 1#1 (August 1998), p. 4, which estimates the number at between 500,000 and 1,000,000. Seven out of every 10 Tutsis were killed.
  4. "Numbers (HRW Report - Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda, March 1999)". www.hrw.org. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  5. https://press.un.org/en/1997/19971212.sgsm6422.html
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