4+Rwanda+Why?

=**Why did this happen to the people in Rwanda?** DH = = = = =

The Rwandan genocide was caused by a power struggle between the two dominant tribes in both Rwanda and Burundi. The Hutu and the Tutsi. They had been massacring each other in those two countries for decades after independence and a civil war between the two groups had been going on in the early 1990s. In 1994, the Hutu Rwandan president was killed when his plane exploded mid-flight. Angry Hutus took advantage of this as a time to exterminate the Tutsi once and for all.

Over a period of 3 months, over 800,000 Tutsis and some of their Hutu allies were killed. Millions of Tutsis fled to the Congo, Uganda or Burundi. A Tutsi rebel group, the RPF began an offensive to win back Rwanda and they conquered the country thus making the Hutus along with people who commited the genocide flee into the Democratic Republic of Congo.