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| style="width:120px;" |Name
! style="width:65px;" |Date
! style="width:75px;" |Deaths
! style="width:120px;" |Involved
! class="unsortable" |Location – Circumstances |
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| Bugesera invasion also known as the Bloody Christmas
|December 21-27 1963
|10,000-20,000 [{{Cite news |date=1964-03-08 |title=WATUSI WAR DEAD PLACED AT 20,000 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/03/08/watusi-war-dead-placed-at-20000.html |access-date=2023-09-14 |issn=0362-4331}}]
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|Various locations – Reprisals for attack by exiled Tutsis
5% of Tutsis in Rwanda killed |
| 1991 Bagogwe massacre
|January-March 1991
|300[{{Cite web |title=Human Rights Developments |url=https://www.hrw.org/reports/1992/WR92/AFW-07.htm#P451_159300 |access-date=2023-09-14 |website=www.hrw.org}}]
|Hutu
|Northwest Rwanda – Reprisal for RPF offensive |
| Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira
|6 April 1994
|12
|Tutsi rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) or government-aligned Hutu Power followers (disputed)
|Kigali – 12 people, including Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira were killed when their airplane was shot down. The shootdown was the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide |
| Rwandan genocide
|7 April – 15 July 1994
|500,000–1,000,000[See, e.g., [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13431486 Rwanda: How the genocide happened], BBC, May 17, 2011, which gives an estimate of 800,000, and [http://www.un.org/en/africarenewal/subjindx/121rwan.htm OAU sets inquiry into Rwanda genocide], Africa Recovery, Vol. 12 1#1 (August 1998), p. 4, which estimates the number at between 500,000 and 1,000,000. Seven out of every 10 Tutsis were killed.]
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|Various locations – 70% of Tutsis exterminated, 30% of Twa killed |
| Musha Church massacre
|13 April 1994
|1,180-1,200[{{Cite web|url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/1994/4/16/mundo/7.html|title=Folha de S.Paulo - Massacre em igreja de Ruanda mata 1.180 - 16/4/1994|date=16 April 1994|access-date=17 February 2024|website=Folha de S.Paulo|language=Brazilian Portuguese}}][{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/16/world/tribes-battle-for-rwandan-capital-new-massacres-reported.html|title=Tribes Battle for Rwandan Capital; New Massacres Reported - The New York Times|date=16 April 1994|access-date=17 February 2024|website=The New York Times}}]
|Interahamwe (Hutu paramilitary organization)
|Rutoma sector, Gikoro commune, Kigali – Part of the Rwandan genocide |
| Murambi Technical School massacre
|April 18 – 21, 1994
|5,000–20,000[{{Cite web |title=Numbers (HRW Report - Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda, March 1999) |url=https://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/rwanda/Geno1-3-04.htm |access-date=2022-03-31 |website=www.hrw.org}}]
|Interahamwe (Hutu paramilitary organization)
|Murambi Technical School – Part of the Rwandan genocide. |
| Ntarama Massacre
|15 April 1994
|5,000
|Police, soldiers, interahamwe and local volunteers
|Ntarama church, Ntarama – Part of the Rwandan genocide. |
| Nyarubuye massacre
|April 15-16, 1994
|20,000
|Interahamwe (Hutu paramilitary organization)
|Kibungo Province – Part of the Rwandan genocide. |
| Kibeho Massacre
|April 22, 1995
|4000+
|Rwandan Patriotic Army
|Near Kibeho – Rwandan government estimated death toll at 330 |
| Gikondo massacre
|April 9, 1994
|110
|Interahamwe militia under supervision of the Hutu presidential guard
|Gikondo, Kigali – part of the Rwandan genocide. |
| Nyakimana cave massacre
|October 23-October 28,1997
|5,000-8,000[[https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/afr470431997en.pdf Rwanda: Civilians trapped in armed conflict]]
|RPF
|Gisenyi Province – RPF bombing of alleged Hutu displaced persons[{{Cite web|url=https://www.therwandan.com/october-23-28-1997-the-nyakinama-cave-bombing/|title=October 23-28, 1997 – THE NYAKINAMA CAVE BOMBING - Therwandan|date=24 October 2018|access-date=1 January 2024|website=www.therwandan.com}}][{{Cite web|url=https://www.hutugenocide.org/nyakinama-cave-bombing/|title=Nyakinama Cave bombing – Hutu Genocide}}] |
| Mudende camp massacre
|December 10, 1997
|231-300[{{Cite news |date=1997-12-12 |title=SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES PROFOUND SHOCK AT 'SAVAGERY' OF ATTACK AT MUDENDE CAMP IN NORTH-WESTERN RWANDA - UN Press |work=UN Press |url=https://press.un.org/en/1997/19971212.sgsm6422.html |access-date=2023-11-23 }}]
|Hutu
|Northwest Rwanda – Hutu guerilla attack on Tutsi refugee camp |