Rwanda Genocide

Rwanda was a mass genocide of 20% of the contries population. It was the because of the Belgian favoritism of the Tutsi minority group because of their more European look. The Tutsi were overthrown by the majority group the Hutu in 1959 so in 1990 and started the Rwanda civil war. They made a cease fire in 1993,but,in april of 1994, in result to the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana, the Hutu peoples conducted a mass killing of Tutsi and pro-peace Hutus. The Hutu power group known as the Akazu Directed the genocide.

The groups in the conflict were the following:

Tutsi Tribe

Hutu Tribe

The United Nations

My source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide

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