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Why It Occurred By Alec

The genocide was sparked to start mainly because of the death of the Rwandan presidents death. He was killed when he was flying into his airport. His plane was shot down from the sky. This president was loved by many people, and his death sparked everyone. Since nobody knew who killed the president, a group of extremist thought that the best way to give the killer what they deserved, was by killed as many people as they needed to make sure the killer was not alive.

Another thing that sparked the genocide was the major ethnic division between the Tutsi and the Hutu. In that same year that the President died, the Hutu started to take over and completely invaded the whole country trying to get rid of all the Tutsi in the nation. The Hutu also had a major advantage because they had a population of about 90%. The Tutsi only had a population of 10%.

Because the tutsi had a major disadvantage, they fled to neighboring countries to try to make their armies stronger. When they came back to fight from those countries, this made the Hutu even more angry. There were many events that made the ethnic groups more and more angry. Another of those events was the use of children and even babies to try to turn you against the other ethnic group. If you denied it, you child would be beaten and slowly tormented with sticks and machetes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide