France indicts president of Rwanda

On April 6, 1994, two missiles blew the plane carrying Rwanda’s President Juvenal Habyarimana out of the skies, killing all on board, including the President of Burundi and Rwanda’s army chief of staff.

The shooting down of the presidential jet seemed to act as a signal, so that by 9:15 the same morning roadblocks had cordoned off the capital of Kigali, and the slaughter of the minority ethnic group, the Tutsis, began. It is estimated that up to a million people were butchered, approximately one in seven of the population, over 100 days. The Rwandan regime, based on the majority Hutu ethnic group, was fully complicit in the mass killings.

In an ongoing court case in France to investigate the crash, instigated by the families of the crew who piloted the Falcon jet, presiding Judge Jean Louis Bruguière accused Paul Kagame and nine Rwandan officials of being involved in shooting down the plane.

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