January 1993
Jean Carbonare, Chairman of an international commission of enquiry, says that he saw French instructors at the Bigogwe camp, where “truckloads of civilians were being brought.
8 January 1993
Colonel Théoneste Bagosora, a Rwandan military officer, leaves Arusha saying : “I am returning to Kigali to prepare the Tutsi apocalypse”
21 January 1993
Violent demonstrations by MRND and CDR, massacres against Tutsi start again. Arusha negotiations are suspended.
8 – 20 February 1993
The RPF relaunches a military offensive. The FAR retreat. The RPF stops at Shyorongi at the entrance of Kigali.
20 – 22 February 1993
Fresh massacres of Tutsi by CDR and MRND militias in Gisenyi, Ruhengeri, Kibuye and Byumba prefectures.
4 August 1993
Radio-Television Libre de Mille collines (RTLM), created in July, begins propaganda programmes against the Tutsi.
5 October 1993
UN Resolution 872 establishes the United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR), comprising 2,500 peacekeepers