The Rwanda Genocide
During 1994 was a mass murder of an estimate of eight hundred thousand people of Rwanda. Rwanda's population consisted of mainly two ethnicities. And they are the Hutu and Tutsi tribes. It started from the assassination of the Hutu Juvénal Habyarimana. He was in his planed the Kigali airport in April 6th 1994 as he was shot and killed. After the next Hutu president in line was Cyprien Ntaryamira who was also later killed. These events have lead to fighting fit organized militias of both the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups. This genocide has lasted a period of about 100 days. Before the genocide, there was ethnic tension between two tribes, the Hutu and the Tutsi. The Tutsi’s where rumored to be wealthier and have a better social status over the Hutu low class farmers. After the president had been shot, the soldiers and radio were spreading propaganda. They encouraged the Hutu civilians to kill their Tutsi neighbors, resulting in the Genocide of Rwanda. After the end of the genocide, the Tutsis had again gained control of Rwanda. About 2 million of the people of Hutu ran away to Tanzania. Than half a million were later expelled by the Tanzanian Government.
Faisal Rahman
Faisal Rahman
Immaculee Ilibagiza
Immaculee Ilibagiza was born in Rwanda 1970. As of now she is a Roman catholic and a Tutsi woman about 40 years of age. She was attending a university when the genocide started. When the situation became very brutal, with seven other women she hid in a pastor's bathroom for roughly 91 days. With Tutsi rebels looking for them so she had to stay quiet for several days. She had some time to get out of the bathroom and lay down in the room. But not for long. She managed to learn English with only a bible and a dictionary at her dispense. With the lack of food, she has lost 50 pounds since she had first entered. All she did in that cramped bathroom was learn English and pray. In July 18, the RPF announced that the war was over. When she was finally free, she had found most of her family dead. As soon as she entered the United Nation, she had found a job since she had learned English during the genocide. She had continued to work in United States in 1998. Later in 2006, she had published a book Left to tell; Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust which than later rewarded her for multiple awards later in her life.
Junwhee Ahn
Junwhee Ahn
