GENOCIDE
The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
Rwanda - April 1994
In 1919, the Belgium controlled the small central African nation of Rwanda. Putting the Tutsi in power, the Hutu felt oppressed. The Europeans began to separate the two groups through identification cards and by measuring facial features and cranium size. When the Belgium went to exit the country, they held elections which put the Hutu majority in control.
Tensions continued for years and escalated with the intentional downing of the Rwandan Presidents plane in April of 1994. From April to July 1994, members of the Hutu ethnic majority in Rwanda murdered as many as 800,000 people, mostly of the Tutsi minority. Extreme Hutu nationalists in the capital of Kigali began the genocide which spread throughout the country with great speed and brutality. By the time the Tutsi-led Rwandese Patriotic Front gained control of the country through a military offensive in early July, hundreds of thousands of Rwandans were dead and many more displaced from their homes. The RPF victory created 2 million more refugees (mainly Hutus) from Rwanda, exacerbating what had already become a full-blown humanitarian crisis. |
"Sometimes in April"
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Pyramid of Hate
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