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Rwanda: Security Conditions at Kigali Airport

Card Number 30849

Number
30849
Date
July 13, 1994
Ymd
19940713
Title
Rwanda: Security Conditions at Kigali Airport
Subtitle
Capabilites and Intentions
Cote
0000584721
File name
DOC0000584721.pdf
Size
58511 bytes
Pages nb.
2
Source
CIA
URL origin
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000584721.pdf
Public records
CIA
Type
Note
Language
EN
Abstract
RPF forces are equipped with anti-aircraft artillery and SA-7 portable air-to-ground missiles. When the fighting broke out in early April, Hutu regime troops had about 35 anti-aircraft artillery pieces and – according to information passed from [name withheld] to [name withheld], the US defense attaché – 15 French Mistral surface-to-air missiles. Hutu soldiers – probably including members of the presidential guard – are almost certainly responsible for the attack on former President Habyarimana's plane as it landed on April 6, 1994.
Comment
UNAMIR reported that "RPF fired towards the civil passengers aircraft twice with anti-aircraft guns this morning" on June 30, 1994.