The 1994 genocide against Tutsi was a carefully planned and executed exercise to exterminate Tutsi and Hutu who did not agree with the prevailing extremist politics of the Habyarimana regime. More than one million lives were lost in only one hundred days. It is the fastest and most vicious genocide yet recorded in human history.
That genocide was by no means the first time that the unfortunate government of Rwanda attempted to annihilate sections of the population they believed were opposed to their politics. Since 1959 Tutsi started to be targeted. That harassment against Tutsi took its origin in politics of “Divide and rule” introduced by colonialist at the end of 19th century. The Rwandan society was divided into three ethnic groups and misunderstanding between these groups started by 1950s.
In 1959 and throughout the 1960s, the government of Rwanda launched vicious attacks against Tutsi that is the first cycle of genocide resulting in a mass killings and exodus into neighboring countries: Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Congo. For the first time in Rwanda’s six century long history, a large portion of the people of Rwanda became stateless, and was denied the right to live in their motherland. The Rwandan leadership preached a message of division, hatred, and violence to the population, resulting in repeated cycles of genocide.
Other cycles of genocide occurred in 1973 and 1979. That on consisting in harassment against Tutsi in schools, different services and in systematic imprisonments and killings. In 1990, when the liberation war started by the RPF Inkotanyi. The government launched yet another cycle of genocide. Between 1990-1994, in October 1990 at Kibirira (North-West of Rwanda) many Tutsi were killed; February 1991 thousands of Tutsi of Bigogwe in the North of Rwanda were murdered by the Habyarimana regime. Some days after, in Bugesera, Kibuye, Butare and elsewhere genocide against Tutsi was systematically started and resulting in tens of thousands of deaths. Then the final genocide occurred in 1994 when only in 100 days more than one million of people lost their lives.
That genocide was by no means the first time that the unfortunate government of Rwanda attempted to annihilate sections of the population they believed were opposed to their politics. Since 1959 Tutsi started to be targeted. That harassment against Tutsi took its origin in politics of “Divide and rule” introduced by colonialist at the end of 19th century. The Rwandan society was divided into three ethnic groups and misunderstanding between these groups started by 1950s.
In 1959 and throughout the 1960s, the government of Rwanda launched vicious attacks against Tutsi that is the first cycle of genocide resulting in a mass killings and exodus into neighboring countries: Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Congo. For the first time in Rwanda’s six century long history, a large portion of the people of Rwanda became stateless, and was denied the right to live in their motherland. The Rwandan leadership preached a message of division, hatred, and violence to the population, resulting in repeated cycles of genocide.
Other cycles of genocide occurred in 1973 and 1979. That on consisting in harassment against Tutsi in schools, different services and in systematic imprisonments and killings. In 1990, when the liberation war started by the RPF Inkotanyi. The government launched yet another cycle of genocide. Between 1990-1994, in October 1990 at Kibirira (North-West of Rwanda) many Tutsi were killed; February 1991 thousands of Tutsi of Bigogwe in the North of Rwanda were murdered by the Habyarimana regime. Some days after, in Bugesera, Kibuye, Butare and elsewhere genocide against Tutsi was systematically started and resulting in tens of thousands of deaths. Then the final genocide occurred in 1994 when only in 100 days more than one million of people lost their lives.
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