What was the the cause of the genocide in Rwanda?

Answer 1

Answer 1

There were 2 groups of people in Rwanda the Tutsis and the Hutus. When the Belgians arrived, they thought that the country needed a leading group, so they put the Tutsis in charge. As there are more Hutu people than Tutsi people, at the election the Hutu government was voted in. On April 6th 1994, the president was flying into into Rwanda when his plane was shot down. He died, which caused the fighting between the Hutus and Tutsis. 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the 100 day fight, and two million people were refugees because of this.

We haven't learned what happened after the 100 days but I hope this was a help to you!

Answer 2

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. The civil war and genocide only ended when the Tutsi-dominated rebel group, the RPF, defeated the Hutu perpetrator regime and President Paul Kagame took control.