2000

Events

February 29 - 6-year old Dedric Owens shoots and kills his classmate Kayla Rolland, making him to be the youngest school shooter.
April 22 - Paul Kagame is sworn in as President of Rwanda following the resignation of his predecessor Pasteur Bizimungu.
May 17 - Foday Sankoh is indicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
July 17 - Bashar al-Assad is sworn in as President of Syria after the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad.
September 28 - Beginning of the Second Intifada.
September 30 - The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda is founded.
October 7 - Slobodan Milošević resigns from the presidency of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
October 7 - Hezbollah launches a raid against Israeli military personnel stationed on the Lebanon-Golan Heights border. Three soldiers were kidnapped and later killed.
October 12 - The USS Cole is bombed by Al-Qaeda while refueling in Yemen's Aden harbor.
November 22 - Alberto Fujimori flees to Japan to avoid being prosecuted for corruption and human rights violations; he is impeached in absentia by the Peruvian Congress.
December 14 - Toni Lawrence is released from prison.
Unknown - Chan Man-lok and his Men are given life in prison.