The Rwandan Genocide is known to be considered the genocide that was targeted towards the tutsi ethnic group of rwanda and it is also known that the actions of this genocide where mostly coordinated by the hutu majority. The Rwandan genocides resulted in the killings of an estimated 800,000 rwandans in the short period of just 100 days. The Rwandan Genocides took place on April 7 1994 and ended in July of 1994. The Rwandan genocides began shortly after the death of the hutu president of Rwanda Major General Juvénal Habyarimana. Before the death of the president there were still an ongoing civil war present between the tutsi and the hutus that had broke out during the 1990’s. The shortage of land was one of the contributions to the Civil
