Terror in the Land of a Thousand Hills.
The Rwanda Genocide was a tragic event that occurred between April and July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. Rwanda, a landlocked country in East Africa, with borders with Uganda, Burundi,Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo, was plunged intoa a civil war when armed Hutu militias targeted members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa. The scale and brutality of the genocide were shocking, with an estimated 500,000 to 800,000 Tutsi deaths. The Mad City The genocide was preceded by years of ethnic tensions and political instability in Rwanda. The assassination of Hutu President Juvénal Habyarimana on April 6, 1994, sparked the genocidal killings the following day. Hutu soldiers, police, and militia targeted key Tutsi and moderate Hutu leaders, and the violence quickly spread across the country. Despite the international community's awareness of the genocide, there was a lack of intervention to forcefully stop the killings. Most victims
