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The Hutu government had fought a war with Ugandan-based Tutsi rebels, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), from 1990 to 1993.

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It is estimated that nearly 100,000 children were orphaned, abducted or abandoned.

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The people were tortured and terrorized as they saw those they love die and feared the loss of their own life and saw their kids turned into ruthless killing machines.

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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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One source estimated between 14,000 and 18,000 children between 7 and 14 years old are recruited into the armed forces every year.

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Even Today, Rwandan children are still recruited by  the Rwandan Armed Forces.

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About 5,000 persons under 18 were members of the Rwandan Patriotic Army.

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In 1994 the Rwandan Ministry of Defense agreed to demobilize all child soldiers.

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The remaining Tutsis in Rwanda, mostly due to intermarriage or other family relations were discriminated against as racially “lesser” citizens by the new Hutu government

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Rwandan gained independence  in 1961.Which marked  the establishment of a Hutu-led Rwandan government. The

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2 million people, almost all Hutus fled to Rwanda going into refugee camps in the Congo at the time it was called Zaire and other neighboring countries.

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5000 people were arrested during the genocide for killing people before they reached 18.

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A Hutu nationalist group Parmehutu led a revolution in 1959, which eventually overthrew the Tutsi ruling class resulting in the death of nearly 20,000 Tutsis.

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In 1959  the Hutu overthrew the tutsis who had control of the country for years. These Hutus who overthrew the Tutsis were child soldiers, but they didn´t recruit lots of child soldiers until the genocide started in 1994.

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Within the first 100 days of 1994 800,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda. Some of these people were family members of the child soldiers.

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The conflict lasted from 1994 to 2003.

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The assassination of  Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana kicked off the Genocide . This was because it was assumed that it was a planned attack from the Tutsi.