Cyprien Ntaryamira and The President Juvenal Habyarimana of Burundi who was Hutus - was shot down, on the night of 6 April 1994 in a plane and also killed all the people who were on the plane. Hutu fanatics accused the RPF and promptly commenced well-organized operations of the massacre. More than 20,000 Tutsis were murdered, and many more escaped to the bordering nations of Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda. When Belgium surrendered power and conferred Rwanda autonomy in 1962, the Hutus took their position.