The Rwanda Genocide was the mass killing of Rwanda's Hutu and Tutsis political moderates in 1994. In Rwanda the Hutu and Tutsis are the two groups. These two groups are very similair though. They have the same ethnic believes and speak the same language. The Hutu dominated government did this during the Hutu Power ideology. In approximently 100 days at least 500,000 people were killed. the time period was from April 6 to mid July, and during this time the assasignation of Juvénal Habyarimana happened. Roughly over 20% of the countries popullation was dead, which the number count ranged between 500,000 to 1,000,000.
They believe the main cause was the Tutsis were treated unfair. The Tutsis were treated better and got better educational things along with jobs. This made the Hutu mad and very angry, that is when they killed 20,000 Tutis in 1959. In 1990 the Rwandan Patriotic Front, a rebel group consisted mostly of Tutis refugees invaded northern Rwanda. Increasing ethnic tensions in the country led to the Hutu Power. Tutsi intended to enslave the Hutu. The events lead to the 1994 genocide.
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