Question

What event was started by Major General Juvénal Habyarimana’s plane being shot down on April 6, 1994?

Answer 1

The Rwandan genocide was the event started by the plane being shot down.

Answer 2

Answer:

The event that was started by Major General Juvénal Habyarimana’s plane being shot down on April 6, 1994 was the Rwandan Genocide.

Explanation:

The Rwandan Genocide was an attempt to exterminate the Tutsi population by the Hutu hegemonic government of Rwanda between April 7 and July 15, 1994, in which approximately 75% of Tutsis were killed, estimated not less of 800,000 people killed. Mass killings began after the April 6, 1994, attack on Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira, both Hutu, who died after the plane in which they were traveling was shot down.

The responsibility for that attack is controversial, and most theories propose as suspects the Tutsi rebel group of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). Immediately after the Hutu radicals seized power, Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana was killed and the massacre began, resulting in the murder of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the following three months, until on July 15 the RPF conquered the capital, Kigali, forcing the radical Hutu government to flee the country to Zaire followed by at least two million displaced Hutus.