RWANDA GENOCIDE

Subject : International Relations

Context : Macron asks Rwanda to forgive France over 1994 genocide role

Concept :

In April, every year, Rwanda begins its annual 100 days of mourning that coincides with the length of the genocide against Tutsi minority.
In Rwanda, about 85% of the population used to comprise of Hutus and the rest 14% consisted of the Tutsi minority (before the Genocide, probably less than 10% now) and 1% of other communities.
On April 7, 1994, President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, was assassinated. His murder was followed by large scale violence against the minority community of Tutsi’s and political opponents.
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 opponents, irrespective of their ethnic origin.