On the 6 April 1994 , the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana died when his aircraft was shot down and this event immediately preceded what was to be known as the Rwandan genocide in which an estimated 800,000 to 1,000,000 people are thought to have died . Mujawamariya was a targeted figure in Kigali , where Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines called her a " bad patriot who deserves to die " . She was in communication with Alison Des Forges every 30 minutes because of this threat and the aircrash . Des Forges was a member of Human Rights Watch and she was told to look after her children when Mujawamariya ended the call to avoid her friend hearing her die . As it was , Mujawamariya survived
his aircraft was shot down
Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira
Monique Mujawamariya