On April 6, 1994, the plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda was shot down. The president was a Hutu, the assassins allegedly Tutsi. The historic animosity between the two ethnic groups was nothing compared to the violence unleashed after the assassination. The presidential guard began an immediate campaign to kill Tutsis and any moderate Hutus in Kigali, the capital, and within hours had dispatched recruits to do the same throughout the country. An unofficial militia, encouraged by the presidential guard and bolstered by radio propaganda, grew at its height to 30,000 Hutu, who slaughtered their Tutsi and moderate Hutu neighbors. The international community abandoned Rwanda completely: The UN pulled out its troops after 10 soldiers were killed. It was only the arrival of the Rwandan Patriotic Front soldiers that brought an end to the bloodshed. Over the course of 100 days, 800,000 people, mainly Tutsi, were murdered.