Rwanda+Genocide

 Skulls from Rwanda Genocide

http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/genocide/genocide_in_rwanda.htm
 * 1) -In 1994, Rwanda’s population of seven million was composed of three ethnic groups: Hutu (approximately 85%), Tutsi (14%) and Twa (1%).
 * 2) -In the early 1990s, Hutu extremists within Rwanda’s political elite blamed the entire Tutsi minority population for the country’s increasing social, economic, and political pressures.
 * 3) -Tutsi civilians were also accused of supporting a Tutsi-dominated rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF).
 * 4) -Through the use of propaganda and constant political maneuvering, Habyarimana, who was the president at the time, and his group increased divisions between Hutu and Tutsi by the end of 1992.
 * 5) -The Hutu remembered past years of oppressive Tutsi rule, and many of them not only resented but also feared the minority.
 * 6) -On April 6, 1994, a plane carrying President Habyarimana, a Hutu, was shot down.
 * 7) -Violence began almost immediately after that.
 * 8) -Under the cover of war, Hutu extremists launched their plans to destroy the entire Tutsi civilian population.
 * 9) -Political leaders who might have been able to take charge of the situation and other high profile opponents of the Hutu extremist plans were killed immediately.
 * 10) -Entire families were killed at a time.
 * 11) -Women were systematically and brutally raped.
 * 12) -It is estimated that some 200,000 people participated in the perpetration of the Rwandan genocide.
 * 13) -In the weeks after April 6, 1994, 800,000 men, women, and children perished in the Rwandan genocide, perhaps as many as three quarters of the Tutsi population.
 * 14) -At the same time, thousands of Hutu were murdered because they opposed the killing campaign and the forces directing it.
 * 15) -Far from cause for satisfaction, this small success only highlights the tragedy: if weak protests produced this result in late April, imagine what might have been the result if in mid-April the entire world had spoken out.
 * 16) -Although the Rwandans are fully responsible for the organization and execution of the genocide, governments and peoples elsewhere all share in the shame of the crime because they failed to prevent and stop this killing campaign