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- Clockwise from top-left: the 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; an earthquake strikes the San Fernando Valley, killing 57 people and becoming one of the costliest earthquakes on record; a model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Mandela casts his vote in the South African general election, in which he was elected South Africa 's first president, and which effectively brought Apartheid to an end; NAFTA, which was signed in 1992, comes into effect in Canada,...
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Oct 14, 2009 · During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, also known as 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, members of the Hutu ethnic majority in the east-central African nation of Rwanda murdered as many as...
Apr 4, 2019 · AFP. In just 100 days in 1994, about 800,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda by ethnic Hutu extremists. They were targeting members of the minority Tutsi community, as well as their...
May 17, 2011 · Between April and June 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days. Most of the dead were Tutsis - and most of those who perpetrated the violence were Hutus. Even for...
Apr 7, 2024 · The Rwanda genocide of 1994 was a planned campaign of mass murder in the country that occurred over some 100 days in April–July 1994. The genocide was conceived by extremist elements of Rwanda’s majority Hutu population who planned to kill the minority Tutsi population.
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The Year 1994 From The People History 30 Years Ago. >What happened in 1994 Major News Stories include Northridge Earthquake San Fernando Valley, Channel Tunnel opens, Michael Jackson marries Lisa Marie Presley, Nelson Mandella becomes president of South Africa, Estonia sinks in the Baltic sea, First Satellite Digital Television Service Launched ...
Nov 24, 2009 · In a May 6, 1994 ceremony presided over by England’s Queen Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterrand, a rail tunnel under the English Channel is officially opened, connecting...
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