Arusha Accords

divisions that boiled over into a national civil war between Rwanda's ethnic Hutus and Tutsis in 1990.

After three years of armed conflict, opposing political leaders brokered and signed the Arusha Peace Agreement, bringing with it the hope for an end to the violence.

But on April 6th, 1994, Rwanda's Hutu president, Juvenal Habyarimana, was assassinated when his plane was shot down.

And for the next 100 days, beautiful Rwanda, known as the land of a thousand hills, was hell on earth.