Thirty-one years ago today, on April 6, 1994 (February 26, 1994 lunar calendar), the death of the President of Rwanda in a plane crash triggered a large-scale ethnic vendetta. Corpses lay in the streets On April 6, 1994, Rwanda's President Habiya Limana was killed in a plane crash. On the 7th, a large-scale armed conflict broke out between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes, which then evolved into a tragic tribal vendetta. On July 19, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (Tutsi) formed a new government of national unity after a military victory, and the civil war began to subside. The heads of the dead in Rwanda The civil war that lasted for more than 100 days caused 500,000 people to die in this small African country with a population of only 7 million, and more than 2 million people fled the country and became refugees. On April 6, 1995, Rwanda began the trial of the perpetrators of the 1994 genocide. Rwandan refugees on their way back from Zaire