Rwandan Genocide

Rwandan Genocide

July 1994

Refugee crisis begins

International community response

July 19th: RPF captures Kigali, Hutu defeated

April 1994

100 day genocide begins

April 11th: Ecole Technique Officiale massacre, UN peacekeepers & Tutsis killed

April 6th: missile strikes down plane with Rwandan Hutu president

1993

UN peacekeepers stationed

End of Civil War

Hutus import machetes

Arusha Accords

1990

Hutu Ten Commandments, anti-Tutsi propaganda

Civil War

Hutus form Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and invade under the army from the north

1962

Burundi = Tutsi majority, Rwanda = Hutu majority

Belgium grants Rwanda independence, power to Hutus

1959

Hutu Revolution

Colonization

Belgium favors Tutsi over Hutus