https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg Notes on the Rwandan Genocide. en-us 2019-05-08 17:59:08 UTC 2019-05-14 18:02:17 UTC hello@padlet.com willie_perry359 https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/358181610

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

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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.

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The conflict lasted from 1994 to 2003.

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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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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.

]]> 2019-05-13 20:13:46 UTC https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/359660457 willie_perry359 https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/359661961 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.]]> 2019-05-13 20:19:14 UTC https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/359661961 willie_perry359 https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/359897004 Rwandan gained independence  in 1961.Which marked  the establishment of a Hutu-led Rwandan government. The  ]]> 2019-05-14 13:44:28 UTC https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/359897004 willie_perry359 https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/359897961 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]]> 2019-05-14 13:46:35 UTC https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/359897961 willie_perry359 https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/359898694 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.]]> 2019-05-14 13:48:06 UTC https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/359898694 willie_perry359 https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/359903506 In 1994 the Rwandan Ministry of Defense agreed to demobilize all child soldiers.]]> 2019-05-14 13:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/359903506 willie_perry359 https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/359904003 About 5,000 persons under 18 were members of the Rwandan Patriotic Army.]]> 2019-05-14 13:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/359904003 willie_perry359 https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/359904610 Even Today, Rwandan children are still recruited by  the Rwandan Armed Forces.]]> 2019-05-14 13:58:30 UTC https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/359904610 willie_perry359 https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/359905204  One source estimated between 14,000 and 18,000 children between 7 and 14 years old are recruited into the armed forces every year.]]> 2019-05-14 13:59:31 UTC https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/359905204 willie_perry359 https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/360029687  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.

]]> 2019-05-14 17:47:58 UTC https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/360029687 willie_perry359 https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/360036626 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.

]]> 2019-05-14 18:00:37 UTC https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/360036626 willie_perry359 https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/360036833  It is estimated that nearly 100,000 children were orphaned, abducted or abandoned.]]> 2019-05-14 18:01:03 UTC https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/360036833 willie_perry359 https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/360037375 The Hutu government had fought a war with Ugandan-based Tutsi rebels, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), from 1990 to 1993.]]> 2019-05-14 18:02:16 UTC https://padlet.com/willie_perry359/fp67ncm2zatg/wish/360037375