The Rwandan Genocide 1994 By Efaow and Mr. Bungish

Before the Conflict

History of the Conflict Who were the people of Rwanda? Who ruled most of Rwanda before the conflict?

Beginning of a Social Revolution What the Hutus start to do? As a result, what did the Tutsi’s do? Rwanda gains its independence from Belgium in 1961 Who exactly is ruling?

Leaders Bernard Munyagishari Georges Rutaganda Augustin Bizimungu

Two extremist Hutu Military Forces The Interahamwe The Impuzamugambi

What people did as a result National radio Roadblocks set up

The Killings Killed in their villages or in towns, often by their neighbour’s and fellow villagers Militia members typically murdered their victims by hacking them with machetes, although some army units used rifles The victims were often hiding in churches and school buildings, where Hutu gangs massacred them Ordinary citizens were called on by local officials and government-sponsored radio to kill their neighbour’s and those who refused to kill were often killed themselves. Everyone killed so they weren’t killed themselves: Mayors Priests EVERYONE

Number Killed Unlike Nazis they didn’t keep record The RPF government has stated that 1,071,000 were killed, 10% of which were Hutu (determined in February 2008) Gourevitch agrees with an estimate of one million United Nations lists the toll as 800,000 African Rights estimates the number as "around 750,000," Human Rights Watch states that it was "at least 500,000

Issues Post-Genocide Approximately two million Hutu refugees, most of whom were participants in the genocide and with anticipation of Tutsi retaliation, fled from Rwanda, to Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) Thousands of them died in epidemics of diseases common to the squalor of refugee camps, such as cholera and dysentery These are the refugee camps that were aided by the UN and the US The refugees have fueled wars in Uganda, Burundi, and the DRC

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