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Political leaders who might have been able to take charge of the situation and other high profile opponents of the Hutu extremist plans were killed immediately. Tutsi and people suspected of being Tutsi were killed in their homes and as they tried to flee at roadblocks set up across the country during the genocide. Entire families were killed at a time. Women were systematically and brutally raped. It is estimated that some 200,000 people participated in the perpetration of the Rwandan genocide.
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The Genocide in Rwanda: Why did it happen? On April 7th 1994 the day after the presidents of the African states of Rwanda and Burundi had been killed in a plane crash near the Rwandan capital, what followed is one of the darkest and most brutal tragedies in modern history. Leaders of the Hutu Power and other hard-line extremists orchestrated the annihilation of around 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus and further displaced another 4 million. There are many factors which influenced the genocide including the radical ideologies of the extremist faction of the Habyarimana regime but ultimately the catastrophic failures of the UN and the idleness international community led to genocide. Rwanda is a country with a rich colonial history; firstly
A small UN force was sent to oversee the Accord. There was fighting shortly after the Accord was signed. In October 1993, the Tutsi army killed the first Hutu president in Burundi. After the president in Rwanda was killed in a plane crash, some Hutus killed the UN peacekeepers. After the murder, almost all of the UN peacekeepers were evacuated.
Another important event was in April, 1994 when the Habyarimana and the Burundian presidents were killed after their plane was shot down over Kigali. The RPF sent an extremist Hutu militia and elements of the Rwandan military to begin the systematic massacre of the Tutsis. Also, in 1994 to 1996, refugee camps in Zaire fell under the control of the Hutu militias who were in responsible for the genocide in Rwanda. In 1995, the Hutu militia extremists and the Zairean government forced an attack on the local Zairean Banyamulenge Tutsis. Also, in 1995, the United Nation-appointed international tribunal began charging and sentencing a number of people responsible for the Hutu and Tutsi atrocities.
On April 6, 1994, President Habyarimana’s plane was shot down while returning from a peace meeting with the Tutsi rebels. This horrific event was the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide and gave the Hutu extremists justification to kill the Tutsis, something they had been planning to do; it is possible that Hutu extremists shot down the President’s plane in order to set their plan in motion. That night Hutus told all Rwandans to stay in their homes. Little did the Tutsis know this was so the Hutus could find them and kill them. Hutus marched throughout the country with machetes, guns, grenades, and clubs, brutally murdering both Tutsis and Hutu moderates.
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The presidential guards recruited a mass amount of Hutu citizens to join them in the killing spree. The Hutu citizens were given money or food and sometimes were able to take the land of the Tutsis they killed. The next day RPF declared war on the government forces once again. The result of this was an estimated 800,000 deaths in total for both sides (PPU "Genocide Rwanda”). This civil war finally ended in July when the RPF took control of Kigali the capital of Rwanda.
Genocide In Darfur, Sudan Does Genocide Exist Today? Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people. It is the systematic destruction of all or part of a racial, ethnic, religious or national group. A person or a group of people would want to harm a specific group in this manor because of what they believe or their greed. A major reason is the belief of someone causing genocide is because they blame a group of people for problems in a country.