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__Rwanda Genocide;__

By WILL.I.AM.G





Aproximatly 800,000 Rwandans were murdered in 100 days. It consisted of the Tutsis being killed by the Hutus. The genocide started when the president of Rwanda died while flying over the Kigali airport when his plane was shot down.

The UN sent in peacekeepers to try and calm things down, but on the orders of the Hutus ten Belgian peacekeepers were killed and the UN withdrew the peacekeepers very shortly. Foreign nations including America, France, and Belgium all evacutated their citizens from Rwanda abandoning the Rwadans that worked in their embassies.

April 28th 1994 a UK based humanitarian agency, Oxfam, released a briefing paper saying that situation in Rwanda was a definate genocide. it also stated that 750,000 lives were in danger and asked the UN Security Council to send in troops to reinforce the UN position in Rwanda and to save the lives of many citizens. Many countries agreed that something should be done to help, but all the countries had a reason for going to help.

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An army of Rwandan Tutis, also known as the Rwanda Patriotic Front, that were exiled to Uganda during the years of Hutu power in Rwanda learned that mass killings were taking place after April 6th. They also learned that the 300 Peacekeepers sent in to calm the voilence would not be enough to stop the mass murders so they soon launched an attack into Rwanda to stop the genocide. The killings finally came to an end in 1994 when the Rwanda Patriotic Front forces gained control of Rwanda.

Many stronger nations had many opportunities to speak up and stop the fighting in Rwanda, but at each opportunity they had something else to do. WORLD'S REACTION= NOTHING.

Works Cited Survivors Fund. "What was the outside world’s reaction to the genocide?" w__ww.survivors-fund.org.uk__. 2 June 2009 .

BBC News. "Rwanda: How the genocide happened." __Rwanda: How the genocide happened__. 18 Dec. 2008. BBC News. 2 June 2009 .