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Rwanda Genocide

January 22nd 2014
A war/genocide from history would have to be the Rwanda Genocide. What occurred at the time for this genocide to even begin was that at 8:30pm on April 6th, 1994 President Juvenal Habyarimana was returning from a summit in Tanzania when a surface to air missile shot his plane out of the sky over Rwanda's capital city of Kigali. All on board were killed in the crash. The effect of this is that ... read more
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Rwandan Flag In 1959, three years before independence from Belgium, the majority ethnic group, the Hutus, overthrew the ruling Tutsi king. Over the next several years, thousands of Tutsis were killed, and some 150,000 driven into exile in neighboring countries. T... ... read more
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