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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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President Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira were killed in a plane crash near Kigali in April 1994. While the perpetrators of this act have never been identified, many observers believe that Hutu extremists, angered by Habyrimana's negotiation with the RPF, committed the act. The Hutus' chauvinist solution to claims for land and power by Rwanda's Tutsi minority, which constituted approximately 15 percent of the population, was to pursue the complete elimination of the Tutsi people. The ensuing genocide was well plotted, with piles of imported machetes distributed and death lists broadcast by radio. Ref:http://www.freedomhouse.org/inc/content/pubs/fiw/inc_country_detail.cfm?country=6819&pf

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Hutu Extremists of Rwanda assassinated President Juvénal Habyarimana on April 6, 1994 when he was traveling in an airplane.

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The Hutu's President was murdered and the Hutu's blamed his death on the Tutsi's.

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they attacked him at night

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How many people were killed in the Rwanda genocide?

800, 000


How did the people get killed in Rwanda by guns or what?

During the genocide, people were mostly killed by machetes, but guns were also used.


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Mostly Tutsis, but a lot of Hutus were also killed.


Who killed the Tutsi in Rwanda?

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