Editing 1990s (section)

===Civil wars and guerrilla wars===
[[File:Rwandan Genocide Murambi skulls.jpg|thumb|[[Rwandan genocide]]: Bones of genocide victims in Murambi Technical School. Estimates put the death toll of the Rwandan genocide as high as 800,000 people.]]
* The [[First Liberian Civil War]] occurred from 1989 until 1997, and led to the death of around 200,000 people.
*The [[Ethiopian Civil War]] (1991) was an internal conflict that had been raging for over twenty years. Its end coincided with the establishment of a coalition government of various factions.
*The [[Algerian Civil War]] (1991–2002) was caused by a group of high-ranking army officers canceling the first multi-party elections in [[Algeria]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Noh|first=Yuree|date=October 2018|title=Politics and education in post-war Algeria|url=https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/politics-and-education-post-war-algeria|url-status=live|access-date=2021-10-26|website=Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190121093357/https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/politics-and-education-post-war-algeria |archive-date=21 January 2019 }}</ref>
*The [[Somali Civil War]] (1991–present) included the [[Battle of Mogadishu (1993)|Battle of Mogadishu]].
*The [[Rwandan genocide]] (1994) occurred from 6 April to mid-July 1994 when hundreds of thousands of [[Rwanda]]'s [[Tutsis]] and [[Hutu]] political moderates [[Rwandan genocide|were killed]] by the [[Hutu]]-dominated government under the [[Hutu Power]] ideology. For approximately 100 days between 500,000<ref name="A">{{Cite book|last=Des Forges|first=Alison|url=https://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/rwanda|title=Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda|publisher=Human Rights Watch|year=1999|isbn=978-1-56432-171-8|access-date=12 January 2007}}</ref> and 1,000,000<ref>See, e.g. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1288230.stm Rwanda: How the genocide happened] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221233819/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1288230.stm |date=21 February 2009 }}, [[BBC]], 1 April 2004, which gives an estimate of 800,000, and [https://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/subjindx/121rwan.htm OAU sets inquiry into Rwanda genocide] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070225085128/http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/subjindx/121rwan.htm |date=25 February 2007 }}, Africa Recovery, Vol. 12 1#1 (August 1998), page 4, which estimates the number at between 500,000 and 1,000,000. 7 out of every 10 Tutsis were killed.</ref> people were killed. The United Nations and major states came under criticism for failing to stop the genocide.
*[[1993 Russian constitutional crisis]] resulted from a severe [[political deadlock]] between Russian President [[Boris Yeltsin]] and the [[Supreme Soviet of Russia|Supreme Soviet]] (Russia's parliament at this time) resulting in Yeltsin ordering the controversial shelling of the Russian parliament building by tanks.
*The [[Tajikistani Civil War]] (1992–1997) occurred when the [[Politics of Tajikistan|Tajikistan government]] was pitted against the [[United Tajik Opposition]], resulting in the death of between 50,000 and 100,000 people.
*The [[Zapatista uprising]] (1994) occurred when a large number of the Zapatista indigenous people of [[Mexico]] formed the [[Zapatista Army of National Liberation]] and began an armed conflict with the Mexican government to protest against [[NAFTA]]. The uprising lasted 12 days, bringing worldwide attention to the Zapatistas, and continued through the rest of the 1990s.
*The [[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001)|Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan]] (1996–2001) was formed at the end of the [[Afghan Civil War (1992–1996)|Afghan Civil War]], when the [[Taliban]] seized control of [[Afghanistan]] in 1996. They ruled during the [[Afghan Civil War (1996–2001)|later Afghan Civil War]] until their ousting 2001.
*[[The Troubles]] in [[Northern Ireland]] (1998) involved 30 years of conflict that ended on 10 April 1998, when the [[Good Friday Agreement]] was signed.
*[[1999 East Timorese crisis]].