7 April marks the 31st commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.[1] Between April and July 1994, 75 percent of the Tutsi minority in Rwanda was exterminated by extremists of the Hutu majority.[2] After three decades of investigations, the identity of those who shot down late President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane – the act said to have triggered the genocide – remains in dispute. Below, a theory of who they might be.    I. Attack against the Presidential aircraft The most fiercely debated issue is the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana, the late president who died on 6 April 1994 when … Continue reading Rwanda: Who lit the fuse in 1994?