The assassination of Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana in 1994 caused massive conflict between the Tutsi and Hutu ethnic groups. This conflict became the Rwandan genocide, which killed up to a million people in just 100 days.
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During the Rwandan Genocide, over 900,00 tutsis were killed by the hutus with machetes.
The Rwandan Patriotic Front is a political party that was created in 1987. As of October 2014, Paul Kagame is the President of the party, as well as the President of the country.
The Rwandan genocide.
Because not enough was done to stop the Rwandan genocide.
In 100 days ,an estimated 800,000 people were killed in the Rwanda genocide.
The genocide was sparked by the death of the Rwandan President Javenal Habyariman.
The genocide took place in the context of the Rwandan Civil War, an ongoing conflict beginning in 1990 between the Hutu-led government and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which was largely composed of Tutsi refugees whose families had fled to Uganda following earlier waves of Hutu violence against the Tutsi. Most of the dead were Tutsis and most of those who perpetrated the violence were Hutus. The genocide was sparked by the death of the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, when his plane was shot down above Kigali airport on 6 April 1994.
Because the rwandans and the tutsis and hutus killed each other.
Jevunal Habyarimana, a Hutu, was president that been killed in the plane crash. Few hours after his death, the civil war or Rwanda genocide started. During the genocide, there was not any president. The country was in deep civil war. Later after the situation calmed down and elections was held, Paul Kagame, a Tutsi, became the president.
Juvenal Habyarimna was the president his plane waas shot down by attackers and then the genocide started run by RPF.