What Started The Rwandan Genocide?

Rwandan genocide survivor Pacific Rutaganda, 48, is seen in this February 2004 file picture looking out of the door of a church full with human skulls and bones in the town of Ntarama where he survived an ethnic massacre that killed several hundred people during the central African country's 1994 genocide. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

Probe Shows True Cause Of Rwanda Genocide -- Time Magazine

(NAIROBI, Kenya) — Rwandan Hutu soldiers shot down the Hutu president's plane on the eve of the 1994 genocide, according to a government-commissioned inquiry that formally assigned blame for the crash that sparked the slaughter of more than 500,000 people.

The Rwandan panel also concluded that the Tutsi rebels fighting the president at the time could not have shot down his plane, citing witnesses who described what appeared to be missiles fired from inside or near a military barracks. Those rebels were led by the man who is now Rwanda's current president.

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More News On The Rwandan Genocide

Hutus blamed in Rwandan leader's death -- CBC
Hutus 'killed Rwanda President Juvenal Habyarimana' -- BBC
Extremist Hutu Officials Blamed in ’94 Rwanda Assassination -- New York Times
Rwanda says Hutu radicals killed president in 1994 -- Reuters
Rwandan Report Blames Hutu for 1994 Assassination -- Voice of America
Rwandan inquiry concludes soldiers shot down presidential plane on eve of 1994 genocide -- Canadian Press
Rwanda genocide: Will new report close the book on who started it? -- Christian Science Monitor