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The Belgians would favor the Tutsi and the Hutu felt that it was unfair.

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Even though most of the world knows about what happened in Rwanda a growing number of Hutu extremists continue too deny the occurrence.

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Tutsi were symbolized as bad and they were hated because they had better treatment from the Belgians.

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800000 Tutsi were slaughtered by the Hutu in an organized effort by the government and the militias.

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Tutsi were hated just because they were Tutsi and they were called things like Cockroaches and other

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The militias organized by the Government would stockpile weapons and planed for when they would start the killing.

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The Hutus are classified as Hutus, and the Tutsis as Tutsis. The citizens took tests and exams to identify whether they were Hutus or Tutsis.

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Tutis were classified as "Superior" The Belgians gave a lot of political control to the Tutsis and the Hutus became upset

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Hutus considered Tutsis as "animals" and "Cockroaches". Hutus were called "oppressed farmers"
https://sites.google.com/a/moreaucatholic.org/rwandan-genocide/causes/symbolization

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The Tutsis were called Tall trees and cockroaches. The Radio played saying all "Hutus cut down the trees." This means to kill all Tutsis.

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Hutus were called the "oppressed farmers" and Tutsis were referred as the "tall trees that needed to be cut down".

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The Tutsis were portrayed as having the same value in life as vermin and disease. The Hutus thought the Tutsis were mere animals or entities which made Hutus less remorseful when they killed the Tutsis.

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The Hutus do not feel any remorse or compassion because if the Tutsis are animals or vermin, killing them is not murder. They saw them as animals and not as humans therefore they felt no remorse.

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The Hutus thought of Tutsis as animals. They also used a radio to broadcast and they said things about how they should kill all the Tutsis and about how they were animals

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The government organized militia groups that killed the Tutsi for them to make it look like the government had no part in it.

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By early 1994, at the latest, many Hutus, including a number of important government officials, had come to the conclusion that the real problem was Rwanda's Tutsi minority. They began organizing armed paramilitary gangs and training them to prepare to wipe out Tutsi civilians.

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All of the Rwandan citizens had an identity card, which showed who was a Hutu, and who was a Tutsi. Then, people used those cards to organise attacks against the Tutsis. The RTLM radio also said "kill the cockroaches" when it was time to attack.

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Because killing by hand with machetes and knives was tiresome, the Hutus worked in organized shifts.  Militia set up roadblocks in Kigali and its suburbs. Each individual passing through these roadblocks had to produce an identity card which indicates the ethnic origin of its bearer. Being identified as or mistaken for a Tutsi meant immediate and summary execution.”The Kangura newspaper and RTLM Radio were frequently used to give out signals to Interhamwe and other radical Hutu in the populace to go out and kill any Tutsi they could find. These messages were usually, "Cut down the tall trees," or "Crush the Cockroaches.

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When the Tutsi slaughter began, the Hutu extremists used propaganda and radio messages to spur hate amongst the different ethnic groups and even used it as signals to begin killings

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Radio stations would broadcast about the Tutsis and talk about how they needed to be exterminated and other things like that. Since everyone listened to the radio, they used this as an advantage as a way to get the news out that Tutsis were bad
https://sites.google.com/a/moreaucatholic.org/rwandan-genocide/causes/polarization

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Hutu extremists used propaganda on the radio to create hate between Tutsis and Hutus.

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Hutus began to prepare on April 7. Hutu extremists immediately got rid of political enemies, and although Belgians tried to protect the prime minister, they were killed too.

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The Hutus had "weapons were imported from France, Egypt and South Africa." They got the weapons in order to be prepared to kill the Tutsis
https://rwandagenocideshs13.weebly.com/preparation.html

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They bought Ammunition from Russia and Ukraine to arm their militias. They also bought weapons from European countries such as France.

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Anti-Tutsi youth organization that was created by the Hutu extremists, set up road blocks in the city. They then patrolled those blocks as they looked for identification cards and executed all Tutsi citizens whom they encountered. Also, the Hutus usually tortured the Tutsis before killing them

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The early organizers included military officials, politicians and businessmen, but soon many others joined in the mayhem.

Organised gangs of government soldiers and militias hacked their way through the Tutsi population with machetes, or blew them up in churches where they had taken refuge. Soldiers and police officers encouraged ordinary citizens to take part. In some cases, Hutu civilians were forced to murder their Tutsi neighbors by military personnel. Participants were often given incentives, such as money or food, and some were even told they could appropriate the land of the Tutsi they killed.

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The genocide began in Kigali, which was the capital of Rwanda, but it spread really really quickly throughout the country and throughout three months, 800,000 people would be killed.

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A high-ranking Tutsi and a UN official have claimed that no genocide of the Tutsi took place at all: Antoine Nyetera, who claims Tutsi royal origins, and the former UN Representative in Rwanda, Roger Booboh, who declared that "to claim that a genocide occurred is closer to the politics of surrealism than to the truth". They are denying the mass amounts of killing they have done

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After the 100 daysof genocide about 2 million Hutus fled to neighboring countries so they could avoid their punishments. Also, council member refused to classify the mass killing as a genocide

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Rwanda said that it was not a genocide, but instead a civil war.