Rwandan Genocide

Victims/Victimizers

• Hutu ethnic majority murdered over 800,000 people in Rwanda.
• They murdered mostly people in the Tutsi tribe.

What happened?

• When the Belgians were in Rwanda for colonization, they decided to make the Tutsi minority the ruling class.
• Once the colonization ended the Tutsi minority was still on top and the Hutus were agravated by this.

Date- The genocide happened from April 7, 1994 to July, 1994.

Where

• Rwanda is in the Eastern part of Arica.
• The capital of Rwanda is Kigali.

Why?

• Hutus found no reason that they should still be less than the Tutsi.
• In 1993 a Hutu, Melchior Ndadaye was elected president of Rwanda.
• This was a motivation for the Hutu people.

How

• They killed the citizens using clubs and machetes.
• They put propaganda up agaist the Tutsis.

How

• Hutu attacked them after the president's plane was shot down thinking the Tutsi's did it.
• Some husbands killed their Tutsi wives.

Did anyone try to help?

• The UN and Belgium have forces in Rwanda but the UN mission wasn't given a insturction to stop the killing.
• A year after US troops were killed in Somalia the US didn't get involved with another African conflict.

Did anyone try to help?(2)

• France, who were allies of the Hutu government, sent an army to set up a safe zone but were accused of not doing enough to stop the slaughter in that area.
• Rwanda's current president accused France of taking part in the massacres - but the charge was denied by Paris.

After the Genocide

• Rwanda is still suffering from the consequences of the genocide.

Things UNICEF Did

• Offering support of child-headed households by providing children with school materials, counselling, income-generating activities and vocational training.
• Preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS through education and counselling.
• Providing support for the regular school system and helping children outside of the school system.