Event
Shooting down of the presidential plane, 6 April 1994
A missile brought down the plane carrying the Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi as it came in to land at Kigali; who fired is not established by any court read here.
- Dates
- 6 Apr 1994
- Place
- Kigali
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- How are Shooting down of the presidential plane, 6 April 1994 and … connected?
Connections 2
involved
- Juvénal Habyarimana killed Primary record 1
- Kigali where the plane came down Primary record 2
Timeline 1 date
- 6 Apr 1994 Shooting down of the presidential plane, 6 April 1994
Proof 2 sources
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Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Actions of the United Nations during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda (S/1999/1257) [the UN PDF is an image scan; quoted text is taken from the copy of the UN web page archived at phdn.org/archives/www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/documents/RwandaReport1.htm (Parts I to V)], United Nations, 15 Dec 1999.
Primary record
The plane exploded and everyone on board was killed.
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The Prosecutor v. Théoneste Bagosora et al., Case No. ICTR-98-41-T, Judgement and Sentence, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 18 Dec 2008.
Primary record
surface-to-air missile fired from near the Kigali airport brought down the plane carrying President Habyarimana
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