Thirty years ago a plane carrying the then President of Rwanda and his Burundian counterpart was shot down, killing everyone on board. The events of the 6 April 1994 sparked one of the bloodiest genocides in human history. Around 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda by ethnic Hutu extremists over 100 days. They targeted members of the minority Tutsi community, but also anyone who opposed those genocidal intentions, irrespective of their ethnic origin. Three decades later, the BBC’s Victoria Uwon

In 1994, nearly a million people were murdered in Rwanda in just 100 days while the world watched. This video examines how it happened, why international powers failed to intervene, and what lessons still go ignored. #Rwanda #RwandanGenocide #ForgottenHistory | Forgotten History