RWANDA

In Rwanda there are two main ethic groups; Tutsi (14%) and Hutu (85%). Some Hutu political leaders (in 1990's) began to blamed Tutsi for there problems. In 1994 Hutus began gunning down Tutsi. In all, about 800,0000 Tutsi died in the Rwanda genocide, and overall estimates range from 500,000 to 1,000,000, or about 20% of the country's population.

Events Leading up to the Genocide
For centuries, the Tutsis have been the minority in Rwanda; but have had most of the power. However, starting in the 1950s the Hutu Majority became much more restless. In 1957, the **Hutu Emancipation Movement** published a journal entitled the "Hutu Manifesto", which alleged that the Tutsis had a monopoly on the power, much like White South Africa. By 1962, the Hutus overthrew the Tutsi monarch and established a republic un Gregorie Kayibanda. His regime was determined to punish the Tutsi, especially those who formally had political power, and most fled to the neighboring countries of Uganda and Tanzania. In 1973 however, the ethnic Hutu General Juvenal Habyarimana seized the government in a coup. Many people who fled did not flee to Burundi, their neighbor to the south due to a mass killing of Hutus by a Tutsi-controlled government.

Rwandan Civil War and Genocide Plan
The Tutsis who had fled Rwanda had become powerful in their diaspora countries as well, they helped fight in the Ugandan Bush Wars, among others.

This was basically a organized government killing. Some of the nearly 30,000 militia men were able to obtain weapons such as AK-47s, and General Juvenal Habyarimana imported close to 600,000 machetes for Hutus to kill Tutsis. Radio Rwanda encouraged to kill the 'cockroaches', in one of the first forms of direct media propaganda during the genocide. Hutus and Tutsis were also forced to wear ID cards to identify their ethnicity, although the Tutsis were generally lighter-skinned than the Hutus.