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1994: Rwandan Queen Dowager Rosalie Gicanda, and six attendants
ExecutedToday.com ^ | April 20, 2009 | Headsman

Posted on 04/19/2020 9:22:37 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

When the Rwandan genocide erupted following the April 6, 1994 assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana, the southern province of Butare went initially unscathed. Its large and powerful Tutsi population had limited the foothold of violent Hutu paramilitaries. That calm lasted a mere fortnight, however, and was shattered this date in 1994 when the aged widow of Rwanda’s last monarch was hauled to Butare city’s national museum and shot along with several of her caregivers...

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If I remember correctly, I believe they killed her mother too.
1 posted on 04/19/2020 9:22:37 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat
If I remember correctly, I believe they killed her mother too.

Had you read the very article that you posted, your memory would have been confirmed. From the text: "The soldiers returned to pillage Gicanda’s home in the afternoon and, two days later, they killed her mother."

Interesting post and website, FRiend.

2 posted on 04/19/2020 9:50:06 PM PDT by Always A Marine ("When you strike at a king, you must kill him" - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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When communists took over Laos, they killed the royal family in labor camps.

Today the Dems use the same politics of envy to stir up their base.


3 posted on 04/20/2020 4:18:09 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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