1959 in Ruanda-Urundi
List of events
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The following lists events that happened during 1959 in Ruanda-Urundi.
Events
November
- November 1 – Violence between the Hutu and Tutsi people was triggered by an attack upon Hutu activist Dominique Mbonyumutwa. Over the next two weeks 300 people, mostly Tutsi, were killed, in what was known as the wind of destruction.[1]
References
- ^ Gérard Prunier, The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide (Columbia University Press, 1997), pp48–49
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1959 in Africa
- Dahomey
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
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- Liberia
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- Morocco
- South Africa
- South-West Africa
- Sudan
- Tunisia
- Upper Volta
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- The Gambia
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Niger
- Northern Rhodesia
- Réunion
- Ruanda-Urundi
- Saint Helena
- Sierra Leone
- Southern Rhodesia
- Spanish Sahara
- Tristan da Cunha
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