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In some cases, the Hutu gather Tutsi people inside churches, school or hospitals and annihilated them by hand.
In other cases, the Hutu went door to door just to 🤬 them. They could do this because the government, controlled by the Hutu at that time, had the information of every person and their addresses, permitting the Hutu to know exactly where to go.

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ID Tags given by Belgium were later used to distinguish who was a Hutu and was a Tutsi

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The U.S. President denied the Genocide was happening in the moment, he apologizes now.

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There is no denial by neither the Hutu nor the Tutsi

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Some Tutsis died of starvation, because they had to go into hiding with no food or water. Some died of starvation while attempting to hide.

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In order to organize the Hutu killers, they promised Hutu people that they would have more land, and banana plantations. They were promised land that they did not get, in order to get more Hutus to kill.

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The president was shot and the government was overthrown.

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A day before the genocide happened, the leader of Rwanda and Burundi were shot and killed in an airplane. The Hutus were quick to blame that it was the fault of the Tutsis, and then began the genocide the next day.

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Hutu Farmers and Tutsi Pastoralists were differed by the number of cattle they have.

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After independence in 1964, the Hutu took over the government and blamed the Tutsi for all the crisis and issues the country faced

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Some of the Hutus hid the Tutsis so that they could help them. If the  Hutus got caught, they had to kill the Tutsis that they were hiding and then they would be killed.

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The Belgium identified Tutsis by nose size, height, and eye type.

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Belgium preferred the Tutsi because they believed that group was from a superior race from the Hutu. This meant the Belgium giving the Tutsi better jobs and education

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Before the genocide happened, the Hutus were discriminating Tutsis just because they were different.

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The Hutus saw the Tutsis as less the human, as "cockroaches".

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Hutus went on rampages, hacking people to death.

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Millions of Hutus and Tutsis fled to nearby countries (namely DRC/Zaire and Burgundy) and died in overcrowded refugee camps due to disease

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After exiling the Tutsi monarch, the Rwandan government was controlled by 2 Hutu radicals

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When Rwanda was a colony of Belgium, the colonizers gave the natives ID Tags based on their ethnicity (1916)

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Neighbors killed neighbors, teachers killed students, students killed teachers. Soldiers shot pregnant women.

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About 800,000 Tutsis were killed in 100 days

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Government-controlled radio stations urged Hutus to slaughter their Tutsi neighbors and friends

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At the start of the Civil War, 1990, the Hutu leader commanded that the Hutu should stop making business with the Hutu and that people couldn't marry someone from the opposite ethnic group, otherwise they would be considered a traitor. They also believed that the military should one be composed of Hutu people and that the Hutu couldn't pity the Tutsi anymore.

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Since their begging, even before falling under German control in the 1800s, the two groups lived separated in the country and they could't switch their group unless they were really wealthy, but this stopped when Belgium colonized them

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The world turned it's back on Rwanda and didn't do anything to help them. The Tutsis were alone in the fight.

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The main political parties in Rwanda are divided between the  Hutus and Tutsis, which increased ethnic tension