The Rwandan Genocide

The Rwandan Genocide

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January 23rd 2014
The Rwandan Genocide began because there was an ethnic conflict between the Hutus and the Tutsis. This conflict began when the Belgians took over and made Tutsis be considered the high class, and the Hutus were considered the low class. Later, the classes were switched. Throughout the genocide 800,000 Tutsis were killed. The genocide began after President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda was on a fli ... read more

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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