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According to ABC CLIO, "1923 the League of Nations gave Belgium the official mandate for both Rwanda and Burundi. The Belgians continued the governing system of Tutsi control, further removing power from the Hutus and giving privilege to the Tutsi minority in all areas." Because of this, the Hutu people wanted more power and began the genocide to get it.

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According to History.com, the article states that, ""A Hutu revolution in 1959 forced as many as 330,000 Tutsis to flee the country, making them an even smaller minority. By early 1961, victorious Hutus had forced Rwanda’s Tutsi monarch into exile and declared the country a republic. After a United Nations referendum that same year, Belgium officially granted independence to Rwanda in July 1962." This means that the Hutu people were now running Rwanda

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Rwanda had one of the highest population densities in Africa.
85% of Rwanda was Hutu
14% of Rwanda was Tutsi

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History.com explained that "In 1990, forces of the Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF), consisting mostly of Tutsi refugees, invaded Rwanda from Uganda. Habyarimana accused Tutsi residents of being RPF accomplices and arrested hundreds of them. Between 1990 and 1993, government officials directed massacres of the Tutsi, killing hundreds. A ceasefire in these hostilities led to negotiations between the government and the RPF in 1992. " This means that the Rwandan Patriotic Force was fighting the Hutu extremists.

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The 42nd president of America.

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On April 6th, 1994 a plane was shot down leaving no survivors. It is not determined whether Hutu extremists or the RPF did it but it marked the beginning of the Rwandan Genocide. During the one-hundred days following April 6th, 800,000 Tutsi and Hutu were killed. Hundreds-of-thousands of people became refugees.

This is a picture of Tutsi refugees fleeing from the Rwandan genocide.

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The book Absolute Horror: Rwanda's Genocide stated that,"Meanwhile, the RPF, under the leadership of Rwanda's future president, Paul Kagame, made slow but steady progress against the FAR forces. Although they were outnumbered, members of the RPF benefited greatly from their superior training, discipline, and leadership. They captured more and more territory until, in July 1994 they occupied Kigali." This ended the Rwandan Genocide where Hutu extremists massacred 800,000 Tutsi and Hutu people.

This is a picture of one of the massacres that took place during the Rwandan Genocide.