In the 100 days that followed the April 6 , 1994 assassination of dictator and President of Rwanda Juvénal Habyarimana , 800,000 to over a million Rwandans were slaughtered by their countrymen and , in some cases , their next-door-neighbors . The Genocide was the culmination of intensifying animosity between the two ethnic groups – the Hutus and Tutsis – and the civil war that had preceded it . Kibeho itself was the site of two huge massacres : the first at the parish church in April 1994 , and the second a year later where more than 5,000 refugees who had taken shelter there were shot by soldiers . Marie Claire Mukangango and her husband were among those killed in the April 1995 massacre
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Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira
Our Lady of Kibeho