Rwandan Genocide ‑ Facts, Response & Trials | HISTORY
2009年10月14日 · The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occured in 1994 when members of the Hutu ethnic majority in the east‑central African nation of Rwanda...
Rwanda genocide of 1994 | Summary, History, Date, Background, …
2024年10月25日 · Rwanda genocide of 1994, planned campaign of mass murder in Rwanda that occurred over the course of some 100 days in April–July 1994. The genocide was conceived by extremist elements of Rwanda’s majority Hutu population who planned to kill the minority Tutsi population and anyone who opposed those genocidal intentions.
Rwandan genocide - Wikipedia
In the early 1930s, Belgium introduced a permanent division of the population by classifying Rwandans into three ethnic (ethno-racial) groups, with the Hutu representing about 84% of the population, the Tutsi about 15%, and the Twa about 1%.
Origins of Hutu, Tutsi and Twa - Wikipedia
When Europeans arrived in Rwanda to begin documenting traditions, Rwandan society consisted of three ethnicities that also serve as social castes. The largest group is the Hutu, consisting mostly of farmers. The second largest group is the Tutsi, …
Rwanda genocide: 100 days of slaughter - BBC News
In just 100 days in 1994, about 800,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda by ethnic Hutu extremists. They were targeting members of the minority Tutsi community, as well as their political ...
What Is the Conflict Between Tutsis and Hutus? - ThoughtCo
2024年9月19日 · The bloody history of the Hutu and Tutsi conflict stained the 20th century, from the 1972 slaughter of about 120,000 Hutus by the Tutsi army in Burundi to the 1994 Rwanda genocide—where, in just the 100 days in which Hutu militias targeted Tutsis, about 800,000 people were killed.
Hutu - Wikipedia
A Tutsi rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, invaded Rwanda from Uganda, which started a civil war against Rwanda's Hutu government in 1990. A peace agreement was signed, but violence erupted again, culminating in the Rwandan genocide of 1994, when Hutu extremists killed [24] an estimated 800,000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsis. [25]
The Rwanda Genocide | Holocaust Encyclopedia
2021年4月5日 · From April to July 1994, extremist leaders of Rwanda’s Hutu majority directed a genocide against the country’s Tutsi minority. Killings occurred openly throughout Rwanda on roads and in fields, churches, schools, government …
Divided by Ethnicity - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
In 1994, Rwanda’s population of 7 million was composed of three ethnic groups: Hutu (approximately 85 percent), Tutsi (14 percent) and Twa (1 percent). From April–July 1994, between 500,000 and one million Tutsi and moderate Hutus were slaughtered when a Hutu extremist-led government launched a plan to murder the country’s entire Tutsi ...
History (HRW Report - Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in …
Forerunners of the people who are now known as Hutu and Tutsi settled the region over a period of two thousand years. Originally organized in small groups based on lineage or on loyalty to an...