In country of Rwanda, Africa tourists say this country is beautiful, but if you ask someone living there they will be very confused. They would ask you, how could it be beautiful with the things that have happened?
In 1994 Rwanda was home to two different type of ethnic groups. The Hutu (85%) and the Tutsi (14%). The country was under control of a Hutu leader, Juvenal Habyarimana. On April 6th, 1994 he was murdered by Tutsi officers. This started a massive genocide. Genocide is when people are killed because of there ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. The genocide was aimed towards the Tutsi people, because the Hutus were angry that they killed the President. In the next few weeks 800,000 people were killed. That is about three quarters of the Tutsi population. The Hutus were killing anyone who was registered as a Tutsi. The were even killing children whose parents were a mix of Hutu and Tutsi. They were killing innocent people just because of there race. This is very wrong on so many level, and what makes it worse is the UN or the US didn't help. Everyone just watched it all happen.
Finally on July 4, 1994 the genocide ended. The Rwandan Patriotic Force called for a cease fire. The government fell and the genocide ended.
Mr. Bruns, it will only allow me to put on one picture? i am not sure why..
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