Rwandan genocide

Rwandan genocide

genocide, conflict

Country	Rwanda
Ein location	Rwanda
Point for tym insyd	1994
Tym dem start	7 April 1994
End tym	4 July 1994
Significant event	Opération Amaryllis, arms embargo, assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira, Opération Turquoise, Pope Francis asks for forgiveness for church's role in Rwanda genocide
Has effect	Consequences of the Rwandan genocide
Target	Tutsi
Bibliography	bibliography on the Rwandan Genocide

De Rwandan genocide, dem sanso know as de genocide against the Tutsi, occur from 7 April to 19 July 1994 during de Rwandan Civil War. Over a span of around 100 days, na Hutu militias systematically kill members of de Tutsi ethnic group, as well as sam moderate Hutu den Twa. While na de Rwandan Constitution dey state say na dem kill over 1 million people, chaw scholarly estimates dey suggest na between 500,000 den 662,000 Tutsi die, mostly men. Na de genocide be marked by extreme violence, plus victims often murdered by neighbors, den widespread sexual violence, plus na dem rape between 250,000 den 500,000 women.

Na de genocide be rooted insyd long-standing ethnic tensions, wey be exacerbated by de Rwandan Civil War, wich na e begin insyd 1990 wen de Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a predominantly Tutsi rebel group, invade Rwanda from Uganda. Na de war reach a tentative peace plus de Arusha Accords insyd 1993. However, na de assassination of Presido Juvénal Habyarimana on 6 April 1994 ignite de genocide, as na Hutu extremists use de power vacuum to target Tutsi den moderate Hutu leaders.

Despite de scale of de atrocities, na de international community fail make e intervene to stop de killings. Na de RPF resume military operations in response to de genocide, eventually defeating de government forces den ending de genocide by capturing all government-controlled territory. Na dis lead to de flight of de génocidaires den chaw Hutu refugees into Zaire (now de Democratic Republic of the Congo), contributing to regional instability wey e trigger de First Congo War insyd 1996.

De legacy of de genocide remain significant insyd Rwanda. De country institute public holidays make dem commemorate de event wey dem pass laws wey dey criminalize "genocide ideology" den "divisionism".

Maps of Rwanda

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  Ethnic distribution of Tutsis insyd 1983.
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  Map wey dey show de geographical strongholds of de Rwandan political parties at de beginning of April 1994.

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Read further

• Fujii, Lee Ann (2011). Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda (in English). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-5737-1.
• Gourevitch, Philip (1999). We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda. New York: Picador/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux: Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers. ISBN 978-0-312-24335-7.
• Kamusella, Tomasz (July 2022). "Ethnicity and Estate: The Galician Jacquerie and the Rwandan Genocide Compared". Nationalities Papers (in English). 50 (4): 684–703. doi:10.1017/nps.2021.12. ISSN 0090-5992.
• McDoom, Omar Shahabudin (2020). The Path to Genocide in Rwanda: Security, Opportunity, and Authority in an Ethnocratic State. African Studies Series 152 (in English). New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-86883-9. OCLC 1154947401.

External links

• United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda