The 1994 Rwandan genocide was the result of an economic crisis, civil war, population growth and a struggle for state power. Rwanda’s population of more than 7 million people is divided into three ethnic groups, the Hutu roughly 85% of the population, the Tutsi (4% and the Twa 1%. The 100 days of violence resulted in the deaths between 500,000 and 1 million people of Rwanda's population had been killed, mostly by the Hutus. The Rwandan genocide has often been portrayed as an inevitable ethnic conflict that was born out of tribal differences. Ethnic conflict is a product of historical processes over time that result in divergent ethnic identities and hostility between them. Conflicts that are ethnically based emerges from unjust political systems
