{"slug": "rwanda", "label": "Rwanda", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1037", "qid": "Q1037", "description": "country in East Africa", "entries": 12, "years": 8, "span": [1959, 2025], "span_label": ["1959 CE", "2025 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 3}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "democratic-republic-of-the-congo", "label": "Democratic Republic of the Congo", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "france", "label": "France", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-nations", "label": "United Nations", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-john-paul-ii", "label": "Pope John Paul II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ivory-coast", "label": "Ivory Coast", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tanzania", "label": "Tanzania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "uganda", "label": "Uganda", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1959, "year_label": "1959 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 1", "text": "November 1 – In Rwanda, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is beaten up by Tutsi forces, leading to a period of violence known as the wind of destruction.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370221732#November", "title": "1959", "revid": 1370221732, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1967, "year_label": "1967 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "November 4", "text": "November 4–5 – In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, mercenaries of Jean Schramme and Jerry Puren withdraw from Bukavu, over the Shangugu Bridge, to Rwanda.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370160888#November", "title": "1967", "revid": 1370160888, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1985, "year_label": "1985 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "December 27", "text": "December 27 – American naturalist Dian Fossey is found brutally murdered in Rwanda.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369963057#December", "title": "1985", "revid": 1369963057, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1990, "year_label": "1990 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 1", "text": "October 1 – The rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front invades Rwanda from Uganda, marking the start of the Rwandan Civil War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366571855#October", "title": "1990", "revid": 1366571855, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1990, "year_label": "1990 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "September 1", "text": "September 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Ivory Coast.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366571855#September", "title": "1990", "revid": 1366571855, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1994, "year_label": "1994 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 21", "text": "April 21 – The Red Cross estimates that hundreds of thousands of Tutsi have been killed in Rwanda.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369917016#April", "title": "1994", "revid": 1369917016, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1994, "year_label": "1994 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 6", "text": "April 6 – Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira die when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali, Rwanda. This is taken as a pretext to begin the Rwandan genocide.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369917016#April", "title": "1994", "revid": 1369917016, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1994, "year_label": "1994 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 7", "text": "April 7 – The Rwandan genocide begins in Kigali, Rwanda.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369917016#April", "title": "1994", "revid": 1369917016, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1998, "year_label": "1998 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 24", "text": "April 24 – Rwanda executes 22 Hutus, including Froduald Karamira, for their roles in the 1994 genocide.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373236679#April", "title": "1998", "revid": 1373236679, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1998, "year_label": "1998 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 2", "text": "September 2 – A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide, marking the first time that the 1948 law banning genocide is enforced.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373236679#September", "title": "1998", "revid": 1373236679, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 2020, "year_label": "2020 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 16", "text": "May 16 – Félicien Kabuga, a Rwandan businessman responsible for supporting the Rwandan genocide, is arrested in Asnières-sur-Seine, France, after 26 years as a fugitive.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371633312#May", "title": "2020", "revid": 1371633312, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 2025, "year_label": "2025 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 27", "text": "June 27 – The U.S., with Qatari support, brokers a preliminary peace treaty between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, ending their armed conflict that started in 2022.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372865033#June", "title": "2025", "revid": 1372865033, "section": "Events › June"}}]}