Revealed: The Intrigue, Mystery and Devious Plot Behind the 1994 Rwanda Genocide

Just after 8 p.m. on the night of April 6, 1994, two surface-to-air missiles, fired from a location near Kigali airport, struck the Dassault Falcon 50 private jet of Rwanda’s Hutu President Juvénal Habyarimana. After an explosion, the plane crashed just yards from Habyarimana’s home, with his kids watching in horror from their garden. Habyarimana had been returning from a conference in Arusha, Tanzania, where a power-sharing agreement had been signed a year earlier between the Hutu and Tutsi. Habyarimana died in the crash along with Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira, Major General Déogratias Nsabimana, Chief of Staff of the Rwandan Army, six other government officials and a three-man French crew. Within hours of the assassination, the Rwandan genocide commenced as Hutu militias (Interhamwe) began slaughtering Tutsis and Hutu moderates, while the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), led by Major General Paul Kagame, advanced its drive to seize power....