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| 1994 |
| | | The Hutu government in Rwanda preaches genocide against Tutsis | |
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| 1994 |
| | | The assassination of Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana sparks the outbreak of genocide | |
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| 1994 |
| | | As many as 800,000 people die, most of them slashed to death with machetes, in three months of genocide in Rwanda | |
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| 1995 |
| | | Bosnian Serbs massacre thousands of Bosnian Muslims after laying siege to the town of Srebrenica | |
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| 1998 |
| | | Brutal reprisals by Serb troops against Albanians in Kosovo include systematic ethnic cleansing | |
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| 2003 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in the Darfur region of the Sudan, resulting in large numbers of civilian deaths and accusations of government-sponsored genocide | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Abuses in the US military prison at Abu Ghraib in Iraq are revealed on US television | |
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| 2006 |
| | | Hamas militants take hostage an Israeli corporal, provoking a new Israeli military campaign against Gaza | |
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| 2010 December 17 |
| | | Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor in Sidi Bouzid, sets himself on fire in protest at harassment and confiscation of his wares by local officials | |
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| 2010 December 19 |
| | | Demonstrators gather in the streets of Sidi Bouzid as news of Mohamed Bouazizi's action spreads, in a mood that sparks the Tunisian revolution and the 'Arab Spring' | |
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