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A Hutu revolution forced about 300,000 Tutsis to flee the country.

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75,000 of survivors were orphaned as a result of the genocide.
(https://modernhistoryproject2012.wordpress.com/genocide-facts/)

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85% of Rwandas population is Hutu, the rest is Tutsi.

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Corpses in the countryside were covered with banana leaves so that photography from the air will not be able to capture images of them.

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During this period, more than 6 men, women and children were murdered every minute of every hour of every day. This efficiency of killing was maintained for more than 3 months.

(https://modernhistoryproject2012.wordpress.com/genocide-facts/)

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Time period: It was over the course of 100 days in 1994.  (April 6 to July 16 1994)

Death toll: An estimated 800,000 to 1 million Tutsis and some Hutus were killed.
Caption: Rwanda Map

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The Hutu extremists prepared by insuring that there is no foreign opposition in the country. Te prepared to exterminate the Tutsi through media like newspaper and radio. The radio stations prepared by playing music that many people liked so that they will be attracted to the station, when the time came they took advantage of the popularity. The Hutu prepared by filling their arsenals with guns bullets and hand weapons.

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- A Tutsi official and UN official have claimed that no genocide took place at all
- BBC was accused of promoting Rwanda genocide denial in a documentary
-  Authors of letters demand that BBC apologize to the victims and survivors of the genocide

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sDuring the Rwandan Genocide, Hutu militia troops were persecuting the Tutsis. The groups that we mainly persecuting the Tutsis because of discrimination were the Interhamwe and the Impuzamugambi. This persecution period lasted for about a 100 days in 1994. During this time, about 800,000 to 1,071,000 Tutsis were persecuted, a thousand at a time, in places like schools and churches.

caption: Tutsis are captured by the troops.

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- The extermination began in the capital of Rwanda, Kigali.
- It spread from Kigali to the rest of Rwanda and in the following three months, over 800,000 people would be murdered.
- The extremists encouraged normal Hutu citizens to murder their neighbors through media.
- Hutu used hand weapons such as knifes or blades to kill most victims. Death was slow and painful for most victims, usually torturing them before killing.(Hutus carrying hand weapons and rioting in streets)

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The Hutu extremists used propaganda and the radio to separate themselves from the Tutsi. The used a radio station called the R.T.L.M. to tell the Hutu how to kill the Tutsi. The radio station host would say " encircle them and kill them". The Tutsi were classified as murderers even though they have done nothing wrong. The radio was the biggest factor in the genocide because everyone had access to one and people listened to it everyday. Most people received their instruction to kill people through the radio.

Tutsis were banned from the armed forces, but before that intermarriage between Tutsis and Hutus was not allowed in the military.  People in interethnic marriages weren't able to get any government jobs.

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The Hutus used identity cards to find out which people were Tutsis. They also used the radio (media) to keep track of the people that they killed and to tell each other the addresses of the Tutsis that needed to be killed. The Hutus also set up road blocks across Kigali to check people’s identity cards before letting them go by. They also had weapons shipped in at certain times.

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- Tutsi population was discriminated, thought of as racially "lesser"
-  In 1962 the Belgians made a system of ethnic identity cards which seperates the Hutus from the Tutsis.
-Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Hutu was favored more in society and military jobs than Tutsis.

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The hutus thought of the Tutsis as animals or vermin so it was easier to kill them. "Tutsis were called Inyenzi (cockroach) and/or Inzoka (snake)."(https://infogr.am/the_rwandan_genocide) They also used media to dehumanize the Tutsis. The RTLM radio was first used to build up hate towards the Tutsis.

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https://modernhistoryproject2012.wordpress.com/the-steps-to-genocidethis-thisi/

https://sites.google.com/a/moreaucatholic.org/rwandan-genocide/causes

https://infogr.am/the_rwandan_genocide

https://www.emaze.com/@AOWIRIZR/Rwanda-

https://modernhistoryproject2012.wordpress.com/the-steps-to-genocidethis-thisi/

http://www.borgenmagazine.com/10-facts-rwandan-genocide/

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The separation between Hutus and Tutsis was symbolized by their modest differences. The Hutus created identification cards that signified if you were Hutu or a Tutsi to further differentiate each other.This is an example of an identification card that
people were obligated to carry around symbolizing you as a Hutu or Tutsi.
Caption: Identification card of a rwandan person

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Tutsi = them
Hutu = us
In other words, the Hutu majority classified and discriminated the Tutsi minority.
In the past, when the Cushite (Tutsi) conquered the Bantu (Hutu) they classified the Cushite as the majority class. After the colonists left the revenge seeking Hutu took over and made themselves the highest class.Hutus and Tutsis were classified by their nose size, eye color, and height.
Tusis had lighter skin, longer noses, and were taller while Hutus usually had darker skin, with broad noses.