| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
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| Bugesera invasion | December 21-27 1963 | Various | 10,000-20,000 [1] | Reprisals for attack by exiled Tutsis 5% of Tutsis in Rwanda killed |
| 1991 Bagogwe massacre | January-March 1991 | Northwest Rwanda | 300[2] | Reprisal for RPF offensive |
| Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira | 6 April 1994 | Kigali | 12 | 12 people, including Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira were killed when their airplane was shot down. The shootdown was the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide |
| Rwandan genocide | 7 April – 15 July 1994 | Various | 500,000–1,000,000[3] | 70% of Tutsis exterminated, 30% of Twa killed |
| Musha Church massacre | 13 April 1994 | Rutoma sector, Gikoro commune, Kigali | 1,180-1,200[4] [5] | Part of the Rwandan genocide |
| Murambi Technical School massacre | April 18 – 21, 1994 | Murambi Technical School | 5,000–20,000[6] | Part of the Rwandan genocide. |
| Ntarama Massacre | 15 April 1994 | Ntarama church, Ntarama | 5,000 | Part of the Rwandan genocide. |
| Nyarubuye massacre | April 15-16, 1994 | Kibungo Province | 20,000 | Part of the Rwandan genocide. |
| Kibeho Massacre | April 22, 1995 | near Kibeho | 4000+ | Rwandan government estimated death toll at 330 |
| Gikondo massacre | April 9, 1994 | Gikondo, Kigali | 110 | part of the Rwandan genocide. |
| Nyakimana cave massacre | October 23-October 28,1997 | Gisenyi Province | 5,000-8,000[7] | RPF bombing of alleged Hutu displaced persons[8] [9] |
| Mudende camp massacre | December 10, 1997 | Northwest Rwanda | 231-300[10] | Hutu guerilla attack on Tutsi refugee camp |
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