In 1994, there were between 500000 and 1000000 people murdered in Rwanda. This lasted only 100 days. It started with the assassination of the Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana on April 6th and lasted until the middle of July. The genocide killed approximately 20 percent of the Rwanda population. The genocide was caused by racial hate between the Hutu, which had power when Juvenal was president and favored, and the Tutsi. Tutsi is the minority and was in power until a rebellion overthrew it in 1959. A Tutsi militia started to invade northern Rwanda in the early 1990's and in 1993 Juvenal called for a cease fire to try and sort things out. When he was assassinated many Hutu started killing Tutsi by the thousands. Some Hutu even started killing other Hutu that were trying to make peace between the two groups. In the end the Tutsi got control of the country after killing a good number of the government. 
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