When did the Rwandan genocide stop and how?

Answer 1

I think it's because the Tutsis and Hutus were evacuated by the Americans. But the genocide hasn't actually stoped. People are still being killed.That might be the answer.

leul woldegabriel

Answer 2

The RPF (Rwanda Patriotic Front) were finally able to get enough Tutsis and weapons to mount an attack on the Interhamwe. Most killings in the genocide were carried out with machetes by average people, and they were no match for the RPF, who had mainly AK-47s and other automatic weapons, so all these citizens got scared and fled to the DRC.

Answer 3

In June or July, I'm sure it was July, of 1994, the RPF, a tutsi rebel group, was able to push back the hutus and take over power. The world did nothing to stop it, and wouldn't even call it genocide, because doing so would force them to intervene, which, after the Somalia incident, they didn't want anything to do with Africa (or at least the US didn't).

Answer 4

It didn't stop, Serbian forces killed all civilians that could find Srebrenica, and they do that only because Srebrenica was disarmed. Previously when it was not disarmed they couldn't enter the Srebrenica. Tragedy is that Srebrenica was disarmed to be protected UN zone. But when Serbian forces entered Srebrenica UN peacekeepers runaway.

Answer 5

"The Rwandan Patriotic Front ended the 1994 genocide by defeating the civilian and military authorities responsible for the killing campaign. Its troops encountered little opposition, except around Kigali, and they routed government forces in operations that began in early April and ended in July. As RPF soldiers advanced south down the eastern side of the country and then swept west, they even stopped the killers in the act of attacking or preparing to attack Tutsi at several churches or camps for the displaced. More often they rescued Tutsi with no dramatic confrontation. They drove military, militia, and other assailants from the region and so made it possible for Tutsi to return from the swamps and bush and to emerge from their hiding places. The RPF soldiers saved tens of thousands from annihilation and relentlessly pursued those whom they thought guilty of genocide."

Answer 6

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.