Genocide In Rwanda Research Paper

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I hear shooting everywhere I start running there just nowhere to hide, I’m with a bunch of people doing the same thing there are doing just trying to be safe.I could barely see because of the fog I just lost everybody I was with, the fog starts clearing out and all i can see is a hutu soldier killing an innocent men with a machete.It just appears to be the biggest genocide in Rwanda.

What happen before it got worse?

Tutsi and hutu were living a great life,especially Tutsi because one person from the there came up with an idea,and for that all tutsi got rewarded.Tutsi got rewarded by getting better jobs, a better education,and a better home for their family.
President Juvenal Habyarimana died when his plane was shot down, this is important
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In two days hutu soldiers manage to kill everyone in the church(Rwanda#1).
According to “Article #1-Rwanda”, “more then 500 members of the tutsi tribe found their way to the church compound only to be shot or hacked to death by Hutu soldiers in classrooms, bathrooms and courtyards, and they left to rot.” This is important because it shows what happen in the genocide and what hutu soldiers did. “The area around Nyarubuye fell to the Patriotic front in the week of May but the town, about 20 miles east of Rusumu , Tanzania ,on a dirt road , is so remote that the massacres were only discovered recently.” This shows how horrible people were in the genocide (Rwanda#1). Bodies of tutsi were thrown in rivers, and hutu soldiers were saying that they were being sent back to ethiopia where they belong(Rwanda#2).

Who’s a hutu, Who’s a tutsi? The difference between a hutu and a tutsi is their appearance. For example: A tutsi is tall and thin but hutu are not that tall and thick.
Hutu soldiers and tutsi speak the exact language , they live in the same area and follow the same

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