Rwanda+(1990's)



[|Rwandan Genocide]

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The genocide was sparked by the death of the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, when his plane was shot down above Kigali airport on 6 April 1994. Hutus and Tutsis lived in peace in Central Africa. About 600 years ago, Tutsis are a tall warrior people that moved south from Ethiopia and invaded the homeland of the Hutus. Even though they were much smaller in number, they conquered the Hutus, who agreed to raise crops for them in return for protection.
 * __How it all started__**

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__**Who are the targeted person/victims?**__
[|Tutsi] this was a tribe

__What happened to the targeted victims?__
Most of the tutsi's were killed by the hutu's.  In 1994, many Rwandans of the Tutsi tribe were killed. Estimates run as high as 800,000 people killed in about a 100 day period of time.

__Persecutors of the Rwandans__
The African Army was associated with the government within the country. Also the United Nations were in Rwanda. Peace keepers help to protect the people that were being attacked. **Beginning on April 6, 1994, and for the next hundred days, up to 800,000 Tutsis were killed by Hutu militia using clubs and machetes, with as many as 10,000 killed each day. This conflict was resolved for** **nearly two decades we have only seen one sided justice and a great number of these crimes have gone uninvestigated and some unprosecuted.It is important to call upon all good citizens to step and stop the crime.**

__**Action taken by the United Nations**__
The United Nations Security Council has explicitly accepted responsibility for failing to prevent the 1994 genocide in Rwanda in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed. In the first formal response to a report critical of the UN's role, council members acknowledged its main finding that their governments lacked the political will to stop the massacres.Most of the 2,500 UN peacekeepers in Rwanda at the time were withdrawn after the deaths of 10 Belgian soldiers.

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**__How has the conflict been solved?__**
Rwanda continued fighting against the Democratic Republic of the Congo throughout its four-year civil war. Finally, in July 2002, the two countries signed a peace accord: Rwanda promised to withdraw its 35,000 troops from the Congolese border; Congo in turn agreed to disarm the thousands of Hutu militiamen in its territory, who threatened Rwandan security. A UN court in Dec. 2008 convicted Col Theoneste Bagosora, a Hutu extremist, of genocide for his involvement in the 1994 massacre of 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu. He is the highest-ranking military official charged in connection with the genocide.



__Assistance Given to Rwanda__
On June 22, the Security Council authorized French-led forces to mount a humanitarian mission. The mission called Operation Turquoise saved hundreds of civilians in South West Rwanda, but is also said to have allowed soldiers, officials and militiamen involved in the genocide to raid Rwanda through the areas under their control. In other areas, killings continued until July 4th, 1994 when the RPF took military control of the entire territory of Rwanda.