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Why Did Rwanda Genocide Happen

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Although there are many outbreaks around the world, scenes in Africa never seem to reach the news in the United States. Problems continue to take over, resulting in disease, famine and death. The Starvation of Rwanda image does not give a full insight on what is happening in Rwanda; therefore, many people may not be aware of the tragedies that have happened over twenty years ago.
In the BBC’s news “Rwanda: How the genocide happened”, the Genocide itself started in April 1994. Only in a hundred days were about 800,000 people were killed. During this time, the Rwanda war was also in session between the Hutus and Tutsis, who belong in the same ethnic groups (“Rwanda: How the genocide happened”). The Hutus plan was to destroy the entire population of the Tutsis, which is where the killing started between the two (Genocide in Rwanda). Following their plans, there were serious murders that fell upon both nationalities; thrown into the lakes were tons of Tutsi bodies (“Rwanda: How the genocide happened). Daniel, who has been a witness throughout the event, has seen how brutal the killings got. He described it as, “The Kagera has become a river of blood . . . at one point [eighty-seven] bodies …show more content…

In the end, Jehl specifies that “Witnesses have said Tutsis were the victims of the worst violence, much of it carried out systematically by Government troops and Hutu militias, but have been killed in reprisal and in battles with the Rwandan Patriotic Front, the Tutsi-led rebel group that now controls half of Rwanda” (“Officials Told to Avoid Calling Rwanda Killings ‘Genocide’”). Although the genocide had ended, Clinton administrations had told officials not to describe the deaths of the Rwandan’s as a genocide. This did not help in the times of troubled people, since they lashed out at the administrations “hypocrisy”

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