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Rwanda

Rwanda. April 6, 1994. Background on Genocide. Began April 6, 1994. Mass slaughter of close to 1 million Tutsis. Killed by the Hutu militia using clubs and machetes. Led by the Hutu Government, and aimed at destroying the Tutsi minority. Goal of the Genocide/Ethnic Cleansing.

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Rwanda

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  1. Rwanda April 6, 1994

  2. Background on Genocide Began April 6, 1994. Mass slaughter of close to 1 million Tutsis. Killed by the Hutu militia using clubs and machetes. Led by the Hutu Government, and aimed at destroying the Tutsi minority.

  3. Goal of the Genocide/Ethnic Cleansing • Exterminate the Tutsi people • Gain total power for the Hutus • Revenge for oppression

  4. 3. What was the outcome ? Confronted with international TV news reports depicting genocide, the U.N. Security council voted to send up to 5,000 soldiers to Rwanda. However, the Security Council failed to establish any timetable and thus never sent the troops in time to stop the massacre. By then, over one-tenth of the population, an estimated 800,000 persons, had been killed.

  5. Foreign Influence • A United Nations peacekeeping force of 25,000 multinational soldiers was dispatched to Rwanda to preserve fragile cease-fire between the Hutu gov. and the tutsi rebels • Ten soldiers for Belgium were captured by the Hutus and were tortured and killed. As a result, the U.S, France, Belgium and Italy all began evacuating their own personnel from Rwanda. • The U.N. Security Council responded to the massacre on April 6 by voting unanimously to abandon Rwanda.

  6. The Final killings The killings ended when the tutsi rebels defeated the Hutus in 1994 By then an estimated 800,000 people had been killed More killing than that would have caused horrible things

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