Rwanda

before the genocide, the Hutu's and the Tutsi's lived together and even married each other, however, there had always been disagreements between the two tribes. traditionally, the Tutsi's ruled the country, but the Hutu's didn't really like the idea as the Tutsi's were only ruling the country because they were the much bigger tribe. the killing was sparked by the death of the Rwandan president, a Hutu. his plane was shot down on April 6 1994, and the Hut's assumed that it was the Tutsi's who killed him, therefore, it sparked the genocide, but to this day, no one is sure who shot down the plane.

Yes, the U.S. should try to help the victims of genocide. There is no easy solution though, it is a difficult question. You want to help everyone you can, but where do you look first? To your own citizens, to Africans, to the Mexicans caught in drug warfare? It seems like an uphill battle, but people should do everything they can, and America should help Africa get rid of genocide (Rwanda, Darfur...)

It is difficult to say what exactly led to the genocide in Rwanda, as there isn't agreement as to what was the impetus for this genocide. One explanation given, which was popularised by Jared Diamond's book "Collapse" is that Rwanda's people were victims of a Malthusian crisis, meaning that the genocide happened because Rwanda was overpopulated which means that because of population pressure there is environmental degradation.

This argument goes that in a country with a rising population, where there is limited resources, pressure is being placed on the land, resulting in less fertile land, which means people have to start using marginal land for agriculture. This drains the soil from nutrients. The result of this is that valuable ecosystems are destroyed, soils become depleted and natural resources become overused. As a result of this people and the environment suffer which can then lead to societal collapse and an event like the Rwandan genocide.

However, not everybody agrees with Diamond's argument for what caused the Rwandan genocide. Some blame government policies which led to discontent among Rwandans. Others blame tribal conflict between the Hutus and Tutsis.

Belgium colonists in 1916 identified Tutsis the minority of the region, them being richer in general, having cattle, thus being superior, and had it better under Belgium rule, Hutus resented this.

France supported the Hutus during the genocide and when things got bad they evacuated only the white people.

China provided the Hutus with machetes.

The US really was apathetic.

The UN backed out, they wanted to evacuate all the peacekeepers and evacuated many, they promised to send in troops but that didn't happen until after the genocide.

The genocide in Rwanda recently occurred in 1994 and about 500000 people were killed.

In the Rwandan Genocide, the Tutsis were refered to as cockroaches

In defense to the ruthless killing of the Rwandan genocide, the 14,000-man Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front launched an offensive against the armed forces and Interahamwe orchestrating the massacres. They attempted to drive back the Interahamwe and foil their plans, but were not able to succeed until mid-July. They defeated the 35,000-man army and the militias, drove the remnants of the army and government into Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), and took control of the capital Kigali, declaring a ceasefire. United Nations aid workers and troops arrived to maintain order and bring back basic services. A multi-ethnic government took power, led by Hutu President Pasteur Bizimunga, Hutu Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramunga, and Tutsi Vice President/Minister of Defense Major General Paul Kagame, commander of the RPF. Most other cabinet posts were given to members of the RPF.

Following the end of the genocide in July and August 1994, two million Hutu civilians fled Rwanda, joining one million already in exile. In Zaire, the destination of most refugees, sick and starving Hutu exiles were dying at an appalling rate of 2000 per day. The government encouraged them to return to the food, water and relative safety waiting for them in Rwanda, but fears spread by former government troops that Hutus would be prosecuted on return prevented many from going home. Genocide Trials did not start until the end of 1996 when many had eventually returned, but are still expected to take years to complete. In 1999, more than 120,000 citizen accused of involvement in the genocide were packed into overcrowded jails.

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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.

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 contry of Rwanda Africa in 1994. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1288230.stm "Between April and June 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days."

In fact, very few of those murdered were shot. This was a situation where low-tech methods of killing were used; the most common weapon was the machete. They purchased thousands of machetes very cheaply from China. Another common weapon was a club studded with spikes/nails. Regardless of the "low-tech" nature of the genocide, it was incredibly lethal with a daily average of 10,000 dead.

In February of 1994, the president of rwanda, who was a hutu, named habyrimana (spelling?) was in a plane when it was shot down, and the hutu extremists, who did not like the tutsi, used this as an excuse to start mass killing on the tutsis, because they blamed them for the killing. this, however, was not the probable case. it is more likely that the plane was shot down by hutus who did not like the fact that habyrimana was working on a peace treaty with the tutsis. this is not the only proof of this; before the plane was shot down, radio stations would call tutsis cockroaches, and talk about killing them. it is more likely that the whole thing was planned, and they wanted to have ethnic cleansing agaist the tutsis, and this gave them the excuse. of course, before this happened, you have the british who controlled the area before, and allowed the tutsis, who were the minority, to rule the government, so most of this was started when they put them in power and eventually left, and the government went to the majority hutus, who wanted revenge.

There is a very long history of conflict in Rwanda which was first settled by Hutu people from the tenth century, but from the fourteenth century they became dominated by the Tutsu people migrating to the area. They established a monarchy in the fifteenth century and then a unified state in the late nineteenth century. So this very prolonged historic dominance of the majority Hutus by the minority Tutus is the root cause of the bitterness between these two ethnic groups in Rwanda which has dominated Rwanda's whole history.

Bitterness intensified in 1959 when the Belgian Mandate was in control when the Hutu population rebelled against Tutsu domination resulting in the King and 150,000 Tutus fleeing Rwanda. Rwanda then became a Republic in 1961 and achieved independence in July 1962 under a Hutu President. But he was overthrown in 1973 in a military coup led by Major General Juvenai Habyarimana who took over as President.

After armed Tutsu exiles repeatedly attempted to invade Rwanda in the 1960s and 70s but were repulsed by the Hutu army, continued conflict left thousands dead over a period of ten years. Then in October 1990 they again invaded the country taking control of parts of north Rwanda. The Rwanda government reneged on a 1992 peace agreement and the Tutsu led Rwanda Patriotic Front or FPR advanced on Kigali and forced government to recommence negotiations.

Then after President Habyarimana died in a plane crash, this sparked off the most terrible massacre of both the Tutsu minority and moderate Hutus by the army and militia. 800,000 were massacred in 3 months, millions fleeing to neighbouring countries. A government report in 2002 stated 1,074,017 people, of whom 93% were Tutsus were killed between 1990 and 1994. the country has since achieved relative stability under the FPR but bitterness between the two peoples remains below the surface.

After the Rwandan President's plane was shot down in 1994 it caused the the Hutu's to rebel, 6,000 strong in the violent executions of the Tutsis. It wasn't until 1996 that the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) seized control of the country and the killings stops. 1994-1996

They need a strong leader who can unite the Rawandan people.

The Tutsis lost 800,000 to 1 million people, massacred by the Hutus. More Tutsis lived in a country near Rwanda and their rebel group(the Rwandan Patriotic Front) attacked and gained control of Rwanda. The Hutus fled to Congo and the surrounding areas to live in refuge camps. At first they boasted about their killing but later found that it was risky business. Tutsi survivors in Rwanda wanted to bring the guilty to court but the Hutu aids wouldn't and couldn't separate killers and the non-killers. In Arusha, Tanzania, International War Crimes Tribunal has set up a system to try the genocide leaders, at this point there has been many leaders found guilty, but without death penalty and 40 more to be tried. At the end of 2001 around 125,000 prisoners, crammed into overcrowded jails, still remained to be tried.

They realized they could do nothing to stop it and wanted to bring their own people to safety.

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

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.

He saved more than a thousand people during the Rwandan genocide, the precise number people saved being 1 268 people.

The Rwandan Genocide began in April of 1994 between the two main ethnic groups in Rwanda: the Hutus and the Tutsis. Its estimated that 800,000 of the minority Tutsis were killed by the Hutu militia during the 100 days that the genocide lasted.

http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/Genocide/genocide_in_rwanda.htm

The tribe that was targeted were the Tutsis. They were targeted by the Hutus. The Hutus hated the Tutsis and the Tutsis hated the Hutus. After the president was shot down in a plane the whole government fell apart and the Hutus took over the goverment and tragically started taking out Tutsis.

During April and June 1994, the Rwandan genocide took place over a period of 100 days. Mostly Tutsis were killed, although a Hutu who refused to kill a Tutsi (that could be part of his own family, like in Hotel Rwanda) was usually killed on the spot. The number of people massacred is generally accepted to be 800,000, although every organization has its own estimate.

Firstly, keeping the minority from ruling without the support of the whole public. Also, Britain could have kept it as a colony, and send troops when it looks like a massacre is to happen. Or, splitting Rwanda into two states, one with a Hutu majority and another with a Tutsi majority.