The Rwanda Genocide

• The Rwanda Genocide started in April, 1994.

• It started when Juvénal Habyarimana , the president of the Republic of Rwanda was assassinated.

• It ended in July, 1994.• About 800,000 people were

killed.

• Rwanda is a small country located in middle-eastern Africa.

• Before the genocide, the population was about 7 million.

• Rwanda was home to the Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa.

• The Hutu population made up 85%, Tutsi made up 14%, and the Twa made up 1%.

• Juvénal Habyarimana was assassinated while he was in a plane and it was shot down.

• When Juvénal Habyarimana was assassinated, violence imediately started.

• In the cover of the violence, some Hutu extremists planned to destroy the entire Tutsi civillian population.

• The Hutu extremists were known as the Akazu.

• Paul Kagame was the leader of the Akazu.

• Many of the Akazu held top position in the national government.

• The U.S. chose to ignore the Rwanda Genocide.

• Bill Clinton, the president at the time, didn’t want to get involved.

• The U.S. had just pulled troops from Somalia from a disastrous peacekeeping mission.

• The RPF is the Rwandan Patriotic Front.

• It was created in 1987 by the Tutsi refugee diaspora in Uganda.

• The RPF took control of the country by cutting off supply routes and took advantage of the deteriorating social order.

• The French supported the genocide.

• The French helped to train the Rwandan militia.

• They were also accused of murder and hiding the Tutsis.

• The Rwanda militia did most of the killing, there were about 30,000 of them in the militia.

• Some of the weapons that they used were AK-47 assault rifles, grenades, and machetes. They used machetes over guns because they were cheaper.

• The whole massacre was organized by the government.

• Most of the thousands of casualties were Tutsi.

• The violence forced the Tutsi, about 300,000 of them, to flee to Uganda and Burundi.

• The RPF ended the Rwanda Genocide.

• They took control of the capital of Kigali.

• The RPF took control of the government.

• After the RPF got the genocide over with, the RPF became the dominant political party.

Websites• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide• http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/genocide/genocide_

in_rwanda.htm• http://freeuganda.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/genocid

e-against-the-hutu-people/• http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/mar/31/usa.rwa

nda• http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2009/0407/p06

s14-woaf.html• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Patriotic_Front• http://wiki.answers.com/Q/

How_did_the_Rwandan_genocide_end• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1042059/

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