List of massacres in Rwanda
This is a list of massacres that have occurred in Rwanda in chronological order.
List of massacres
| Name | Date | Deaths | Involved | Location – Circumstances |
| Bugesera invasion also known as the Bloody Christmas | December 21-27 1963 | 10,000-20,000 | Various locations – Reprisals for attack by exiled Tutsis 5% of Tutsis in Rwanda killed | |
| 1991 Bagogwe massacre | January-March 1991 | 300 | Hutu | Northwest Rwanda – Reprisal for RPF offensive |
| Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira | 6 April 1994 | 12 | Tutsi rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front or government-aligned Hutu Power followers | Kigali – 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 | 500,000–1,000,000 |
| Various locations – 70% of Tutsis exterminated, 30% of Twa killed |
| Musha Church massacre | 13 April 1994 | 1,180-1,200 | Interahamwe | Rutoma sector, Gikoro commune, Kigali – Part of the Rwandan genocide |
| Murambi Technical School massacre | April 18 – 21, 1994 | 5,000–20,000 | Interahamwe | Murambi Technical School – Part of the Rwandan genocide. |
| Ntarama Massacre | 15 April 1994 | 5,000 | Police, soldiers, interahamwe and local volunteers | Ntarama church, Ntarama – Part of the Rwandan genocide. |
| Nyarubuye massacre | April 15-16, 1994 | 20,000 | Interahamwe | Kibungo Province – Part of the Rwandan genocide. |
| Kibeho Massacre | April 22, 1995 | 4000+ | Rwandan Patriotic Army | Near Kibeho – Rwandan government estimated death toll at 330 |
| Gikondo massacre | April 9, 1994 | 110 | Interahamwe militia under supervision of the Hutu presidential guard | Gikondo, Kigali – part of the Rwandan genocide. |
| Nyakimana cave massacre | October 23-October 28,1997 | 5,000-8,000 | RPF | Gisenyi Province – RPF bombing of alleged Hutu displaced persons |
| Mudende camp massacre | December 10, 1997 | 231-300 | Hutu | Northwest Rwanda – Hutu guerilla attack on Tutsi refugee camp |