100 Days of Murder: The Rwandan Genocide, April 6 - June 22, 1994.

100 Days of Murder:The Rwandan Genocide, April 6 -

June 22, 1994

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The Origins the Rwandan GenocideThe Kingdom of Rwanda: Tutsis and Hutus

1890 Germany awarded Rwanda

1918-1962 Rwanda under the Belgians: Constructing EthnicDivisions, Racism, and New Hatreds

1959 Hutu Emancipation Movement

1962 Rwandan Independence, Hutu Nationalism, 20,000 Dead Tutsis

1964/1974 Pogroms against Tutsis

1990 Rwandese Patriotic Front (Tutsis) Invades

1993-1994 Preparation for Genocide: Racist Propaganda and the Interahamwe Hutu Militias

January 1994 UN Commander learns of genocide plans; UN, USA, France, Russia, and China refuse material aid.

Timeline of Genocide (1994)April 6 Hutu President’s Jet Shot-Down - Signal for Murder

Hutu Militia’s round up and kill Tutsis and Hutu political opponents; UN Soldiers unable to prevent escalation of violence.

April-July 800-900,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus murdered (equals Auschwitz efficiency); machetes

weapon of choice; United Nations and “Great” Powers Do Nothing.

April 29 UN concedes that “acts of genocide may have been committed; 500,000 Rwandans killed.

June 22 French intervene, do little to stop killing

July Tutsi Rebels of RPF defeat Hut government and end genocide; Millions of Hutus, fearing retribution, flee to Congo, provoking a

new war that leads to 3 million more deaths and continues today.

1998 President Bill Clinton travels to Rwanda and apologizes for American inaction during the Genocide. 5000 American troops could have saved

400,000 lives.

The Interahamwe: The Killers





The Murdered









Counting the Dead







Orphans of the Genocide





Hutu Refugees





A Century of Mass Murder:

Country Years Approximate Toll

Soviet Union (Stalin) 1930s-50s 10-20 million

Mao Tse Tung 1950s-1960s 20-30 million

The Holocaust (Hitler) 1939-1945 6 million

Japan in China 1937-1945 5+ million

Cambodia (Pol Pot) 1975-1976 1.7 million

North Korea (Kim il Jung) 1994-95 c. 1-2 million

Armenia (Turkey) 1915 1.2 million

Ruanda 1994 800,000

East Timor 1976-78 600,000

Darfur (Sudan) Ongoing 250,000 & Counting

Darfur, Sudan(Today)









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