Juvénal Habyarimana was a dictatorial leader of the Republic of Rwanda who death in 1994 sparked the genocide. Cyprien Ntaryamira, President of Burundi also died in the plane crash.
The belgians, they chose the two tribes, Hutu's and Tutsi's. Those belgians really are some jerks
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800,000 were massacred during ethnic conflicts.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali was the SG of the UN during the Rwandan genocide.
In 100 days ,an estimated 800,000 people were killed in the Rwanda genocide.
Jevunal Habyarimana, a Hutu, was president that been killed in the plane crash. Few hours after his death, the civil war or Rwanda genocide started. During the genocide, there was not any president. The country was in deep civil war. Later after the situation calmed down and elections was held, Paul Kagame, a Tutsi, became the president.
During the Rwandan Genocide, over 900,00 tutsis were killed by the hutus with machetes.
Was Rwanda governmentally organized during the Genocide?
The Rwandan genocide only lasted about 3 months, so the 800 000 people were killed during that time.
The Rwandan Genocide began in April of 1994 between the two main ethnic groups in Rwanda: the Hutus and the Tutsis. Its estimated that 800,000 of the minority Tutsis were killed by the Hutu militia during the 100 days that the genocide lasted. http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/Genocide/genocide_in_rwanda.htm
The Rwandan genocide was not really a war, since the aim of this genocide and any genocide is to exterminate a certain group of people. In the Rwandan genocide the aim was to kill all the Tutsis. Fortunately not all the Tutsis were killed in this genocide, but hundreds of thousands were and Rwanda still has to bear the scar of what happened during that horrible time to this day, so nobody won the genocide, everybody just lost.
He saved more than a thousand people during the Rwandan genocide, the precise number people saved being 1 268 people.
They died
The Hutus.