important events
- Hutu revolution in 1959 forced as many as 300,000 Tutsis to flee
- about 20,000 Tutsis are killed in 1996
Hutus the lower power Tutsi refugees in Tanzania and Zaire seeking to regain their former positions in Rwanda began organizing and staging attacks on Hutu targets and the Hutu government
On 1 October 1990, the RPF launched a major attack on Rwanda from Uganda with a force of 7,000 fighters. Because of the RPF attacks which displaced thousands and a policy of deliberately targeted propaganda