Genocidal killings began the following day when majority Hutu soldiers, police, and militia murdered key Tutsi and moderate Hutu military and political leaders.
The catalyst became Habyarimana's assassination on 6 April 1994, creating a power vacuum and ending peace accords. In an effort to bring the war to a peaceful end, the Rwandan government led by Hutu president, Juvénal Habyarimana signed the Arusha Accords with the RPF on 4 August 1993. Over the course of the next three years, neither side was able to gain a decisive advantage. In 1990, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel group composed mostly of Tutsi refugees, invaded northern Rwanda from their base in Uganda, initiating the Rwandan Civil War. The most widely accepted scholarly estimates are around 500,000 to 662,000 Tutsi deaths. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu militias. The Rwandan genocide, also known as the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War.
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