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1994
 
   
Mayan Indians in Chiapas rebel in an armed uprising against the Mexican government      
1994
 
     
The Hutu government in Rwanda preaches genocide against Tutsis        
c. 1994
 
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Mullah Mohammed Omar, in Kandahar, forms a group devoted to fundamentalist Islam and calls it Taliban (meaning students of the Qur'an)       
1994
 
   
Former prime minister Bettino Craxi leaves Italy to escape a gaol sentence for corruption      
1994
 
    
Sylvio Berlusconi's new party, Forza Italia, wins enough votes for him to head a coalition as prime minister       
1994
 
   
US and European troops are withdrawn from the UN force in turbulent Somalia      
1994
 
   
The Rwandan president, Juvenal Habyarimana, dies when his plane is shot down      
Wreckage of the 1994 Rwanda plane crash


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1994
 
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Cyprian Ntayamira, the second Hutu president of Burundi, dies in the crash of the president of Rwanda's plane       
1994
 
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The assassination of Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana sparks the outbreak of genocide       
1994
 
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As many as 800,000 people die, most of them slashed to death with machetes, in three months of genocide in Rwanda