11 January 1994
Gen Dallaire sends a telegramme to the UN Headquarters providing detailed information of a brewing genocide.
28 March 1994
Ferdinand Nahimana distributes a document originally broadcast on RTLM, calling on the population
3 April 1994
RTLM broadcasts an odd piece of news: “On 3, 4 and 5, April, temperatures will rise. On the 6th, there will be a respite, but a little something might happen.
14 July 1994
RPF forces capture Ruhengeri, an important bastion of the genocide regime, and liberate a few survivors.
6-13 July 1994
RPF troops continue liberating cities and towns across the country
5 July 1994
Radio Muhabura reports that at Kiruhura parish in Butare, RPF soldiers rescue 24 nuns, including two Belgians who were injured by the fleeing Government forces.
4 July 1994
RPF forces liberate the cities of Kigali and Butare leading to the end of the genocide. The genocide regime flees to Zaire and orchestrates the evacuation of approximately two million Hutus.
3 July 1994
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe officially announces the boundaries of “Operation Turquoise” in Gikongoro, Cyangugu, and Kibuye.
1 July 1994
RPF forces gain control over areas in Kigali, Gitarama, and Butare. Radio Muhabura reports that RPF Chairman Alexis Kanyarengwe met President Ally Hassan Mwinyi of Tanzania
30 June 1994
Commander Marin Gillier, leading the Turquoise Omar detachment,arrives at Bisesero and finds many massacre sites there as well as 800 to 1,000 survivors.