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Rwanda Genocide Causes

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Genocide is a re-occurring problem in our world that needs to be fixed. There have been many different horrible cases of genocide, but a few stand out more than the others. The Rwandan genocide is an example. It was a very quick genocide that caused over 800,000 deaths. Here are the causes, the people, and the outcome of the Rwandan genocide.
There is a large array of things that caused the Rwandan genocide. Although there were several different causes, a few were more distinct. Between the two different ethnic groups, which were the Hutus and the Tutsis, there had already been previous conflict years before which helped start it. Yet what really ignited the genocide was when Habyarimana, the president of Rwanda, had his plane shot down. These are only a few of the very large amount of things that caused the Rwandan genocide.
There were also many people involved. Most of the people who did the killing were Hutu’s. Most of the people who were targeted were Tutsi males. The Tutsi’s were identified by their appearance, as they were usually taller and thinner than their counterpart Hutu’s. Although the main victims were Tutsi’s, Hutu’s who tried to rebel against the genocide were also targeted. Although Tutsi and Hutu women were not killed, they were often raped and beaten. The RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front) were a group of Tutsi’s who aimed …show more content…

There were many causes to the Rwandan genocide, including previous arguments against the racial groups, and whoever shot down the president’s plane. All the people involved in the genocide were important; if there was even 1 less person in the making of the genocide, it could have ended completely differently. The outcome of the Rwandan genocide was terrible, but it also made lots of people aware of the types of things that are happening to people in the war. Types of things like this genocide are not okay, and they should be prevented from

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