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How Could The Rwandan Genocide Have Been Prevented

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To what extent could the Rwandan Genocide be prevented?

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Introduction
In the year of 1994, one of the most recent and bloody mass killing occurred and that was the Rwandan Genocide. Over the span of around one hundred days of this horrific event, there were about an estimated 500,000-1,000,000 deaths according to Survivors Funds. There were a significant amounts of implications and hints of what was happening at that time but it did not benefit anyone to take action and intervene. With Rwanda and its internal affairs that very well may lead up to a mass killing, an assassination or another civil war. The underlying cause of this event to an extent was unclear, but at the same time it is debatable on whether this mass killing could have been prevented. The importance of this event is very significant due to the fact that it was very recent, and it may very well happen again in a matter of time because all measures taken in preventing the Rwandan Genocide was ignored due to selfishness. But to what extent could the Rwandan Genocide be prevented?

Events Leading up to the Rwandan Genocide
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