Rwandan Genocide

By:Caity Oleson, Markella Ho, Brenda

Rodriguez, and Cierra Robinson

Hutu and Tutsi

• Live in Rwanda and Burundi

• Ethnic tension- Belgian routes

• Hutu beat Tutsi in civil war

• Genocide discussed before hand

Colonial history 1884-1923

German Occupation• Favored Tutsis for their

fairer skin and taller composure

• Believed that Hutus were there to serve Tutsis

Hutu Tutsi

Colonial history 1923-1962Belgian Occupation

• Replaced Hutu chiefs with Tutsis

President Juvenal Habyarimana’s Assassination

• April 6,1994 Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane was shot down and he was killed

Juvenal Habyarimana

• Former President of Rwanda• Plane shot down April 6th, 1994• Aristocratic Hutu family• Became army’s general• “Ousted” the president before him

Revenge

• Hutus blamed Tutsis for president’s death• Presidential guards kill political leaders

Paul Kagame

• Blamed for the crash• Current Rwandan

pres.• Leader of Tutsi• Thinks Hutus did it in

order to wipe out the Tutsi

The beginning

• Soon after an order of slaughter was issued for more than 30,000 people.

Five days= 40,000 murdered

• Within hours Hutu gunmen began killing Tutsis and moderate Hutus-in the next five days they had killed at least 40,000 people

Foreigners leave

• April 9th: America, France, and Belgium removed their citizens

The next 100 days

• 800,000 people killed

"The most horrible and systematic human massacre we have had occasion to witness since the extermination of the Jews by the Nazis." -Bertrand Russell

Genocide

• Killed regardless of age, sex, etc.• Killed many political figures• War rape; many Tutsi women harassed

Today

• Fighting continues between Tutsis and Hutus

United Nations

• People blame UN for not stopping the genocide

Population

• Decreased population to that of 1986

Orphans

• Thousands of children were orphaned

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