The agreement broke down after the assassination of the Rwandan and Burundian Presidents , triggering a resumption of hostilities and the start of the Genocide against the Tutsi of 1994 , in which the Hutu then in power killed an estimated 500,000 – 1,000,000 people , largely of Tutsi origin . Victorious in the aftermath of the genocide , the Tutsi ruled RPF came to power in July 1994
assassination
Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira
Tutsi