1959 in Ruanda Urundi

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Decades: 1940s1950s1960s		See also: Other events of 1959

The following lists events that happened during 1959 in Ruanda-Urundi.

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.

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1959 in Ruanda-Urundi Wikipedia

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