On April 6, 1994, Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana was killed when his plane was shot down near Kigali International Airport, which is just outside the nation’s capital.

His assassination sparked a fierce and bloody civil war that, within 100 days, claimed the lives of 800,000 people—almost 20 percent of the country’s population. The horrific genocide left Rwanda broken.

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