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The genocide took place in the context of the Rwandan Civil War, an ongoing conflict beginning in 1990 between the Hutu-led government and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which was largely composed of Tutsi refugees whose families had fled to Uganda following earlier waves of Hutu violence against the Tutsi. Most of the dead were Tutsis and most of those who perpetrated the violence were Hutus. The genocide was sparked by the death of the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, when his plane was shot down above Kigali airport on 6 April 1994.

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The genocide took place in the context of the Rwandan Civil War, an ongoing conflict beginning in 1990 between the Hutu-led government and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which was largely composed of Tutsi refugees whose families had fled to Uganda following earlier waves of Hutu violence against the Tutsi. Most of the dead were Tutsis and most of those who perpetrated the violence were Hutus. The genocide was sparked by the death of the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, when his plane was shot down above Kigali airport on 6 April 1994.

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The genocide was all about two tribes in the country, Hutus and Tutsis. The Hutus wanted to kill the Tutsis and called them mean names and stuffand it turned into a genocide

On october 1,1990 Tutsi decraled a war to overthrow the government of General Juvenal Habyalimana.The latter was an ally of the french while the british government and The United states endorsed and militariry sponsored the tutsi through Uganda.The Tutsi launched Muhabura a hate speech Radio,

in retaliation the hutu launched RTLM also a hutu hate speech as well hutu ten commandments.Paul Kagame the then Tutsi Rebel Leader inititiated the mass slaughter of more than two million hutus and shot down Habyalimana's airplane as it latter came to be revealed(bruguire charge sheet)while hutu militia also masscred another half a million innocent tutsis and hutus who opposed the genocide or who were politically opposing the then ruling party policies.

kagame exported the genocede to the Hutu populated eastern Drc where he has personnally made six million victims. the reason for killing hutus and castigating the survivors is to make sure they never uprise against him.

The united states continues to support him because he protects their interest in the region.(this is un biased eyewitness account)

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The Rwandan genocide of 1994, where approximately 800 000 people were killed in just 100 days.

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