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Cease Fire – 1994

The UN Security Council reported that an interim civilian government was in place and parties reached a ceasefire agreement on 9 April 1994. This agreement came after the deaths of the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and President Cyprian Ntaryamira of Burundi, who died in a plane crash.¹ The killings continued and on the sideline of the OAU summit, the RPF and the interim government agreed to a ceasefire.² The killings from both sides did not stop. On 18 July 1994, the Rwandan rebel commander declared victory against the Hutu-led government and announced an immediate ceasefire after 14 weeks of massacres.³ Estimations of the number killed in the genocide varies from source to source. International Crisis Group in its report suggested between 800,000 to one million genocidal killings in 1994.⁴ After defeat from the RPF, the interim Hutu government , FAR, interahamwe militia fled along with Hutu refugees to Zaire.

1. “Rwanda Cease-Fire in Effect; Toll High,” Washington Times, April 9, 1994.
2. “Rwanda; RPF Representative In Tunis Announces Acceptance of Immediate Cease-Fire,” BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, June 16, 1994.
3. “Rebels Declare Victory, Cease-Fire in Rwanda; Flood of Hutu Refugees into Zaire Continues,” Washington Post, July 19, 1994, (A; A1).
4. “Five Years After The Genocide In Rwanda: Justice in Question,” International Crisis Group, Africa Report N°1, April 7, 1999.