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 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 belgians because they were the ones who controlled the Rwandans by colonizing them. And they only came for the resources and then they left when they wanted to get the Hutus and Tutsis mad at eachother. After tensions grrew, the genocide became present and over 800,000 people died.
I am currently doing a research paper on the Genocide in Rwanda and my teacher specifically told me that it was the Hutu and Tutsi
The Hutus
The Hutus
The "Hutu"
They were not involved in the Rwandan genocide.
In the Rwandan Genocide, the Tutsis were refered to as cockroaches
The Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide.
The Rwandan genocide.
"The Holocaust" was the name given to the Jewish genocide after the fact. The Rwandan genocide does not have a specific name, but they are both genocides.
The Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and the Armenian genocide.
During the Rwandan Genocide, over 900,00 tutsis were killed by the hutus with machetes.
Yes, there is a very good film about the Rwandan genocide, called Hotel Rwanda.
The Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and the Armenian genocide.
The genocide ended in 1994.
The Tutsis.
The Rwandan Genocide occurred in 1994