Rwandan genocide
Before the revolution was set to happen, Rwanda had to gain independence. In 1962 Rwanda gained independence from Belgium. This left a absence of leadership and power was left around. There was two ethnic groups, Hutus the majority, and Tutsi the minority. This allowed the Hutus to gain power and set the stage for the genocide and civil war.
At the time, there had been a on going civil war. A Tutsi group of fighters named RPF had attacked the north. No major progress was made and the Hutu President Habyarimana signed peace accords with the RPF and ended it. Tutsis then assassinated him, causing the peace to end. The next day, government police, soldiers, and really anyone who was a Hutu went out. They brutally killed about 600,000 Tutsis while destroying homes, raping women, and preforming torture acts.
April 6, 1994 was the day that they shot down the presidents plane. The next day on the 7th the killings started and lasted until 15th of July. The killings started In Kigali but quickly spread across the country. The killings started because of the presidents assassination, but there had long been turmoil. Hutus and Tutsis had been opposing ethnic groups for a while. They had also just gotten out of a civil war, which did not help the tensions.
The Hutu president who signed the deal with the RPF was Habyarimana. He was supposedly killed by the RPF but its not certain. The RPF is the Rwandan Patriotic Front, which is a Tutsi group. They were the ones who started the civil war. Following his death the crisis committee, led by Theonitsa Bogosara took power. It was ultimately Bogosara and the committees decision to start the killings.
Afterwards millions of Hutus and Tutsis were forced into refugee camps. Many villages and homes had been destroyed and familys were destroyed. The RPF took governmental control and started to have fights with Hutu forces. The fighting continued on even after the genocide had ended. Currency had been lost or stolen, business destroyed and ultimately the country had been in ruins. Mass arrests followed after and the country had to try to rebuild itself.
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