2 African presidents die in airplane crash; assassination charged. (Rwanda president Juvenal Habvarimana, Burundi president Cyprian Ntayamira)
From: Jet
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Date: 4/25/1994
The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi recently were killed in a plane crash near the airport in Rwanda's capital. Rwandans charged the plane had been shot down.
President Juvenal Habvarimana of Rwanda and Cyprian Ntayamira of Burundi had been in Tanzania for a meeting of east-central African leaders seeking ways to end ethnic violence in the two countries. Rwanda and Burundi have been racked by bloodletting between the rival Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups.
The plane went down ...
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