Background
On the evening of 6 April 1994, a plane carrying Juvenal Habyarimana, the president of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira, the president of Burundi was shot down as it prepared to land in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. The incident aggravated the stumbling peace established by the Arusha Accords which were expected to put an end to the armed conflict between the Rwandan Government and the Rwandan Patriotic Front rebels.
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