Rwanda Genocide

Hostility between the aristocratic Tutsi of Rwanda and the other 90 percent of Rwanda called Hutu, has evolved immensely over the last century. On April 6 1994 , Rwanda President Habyalimana and Burundi's new President, Cyprien Ntaryamir, while returning to Rwanda’s airport at Kigalia, were shot down and killed. Immediately after their deaths Hutu extremists filled with animosity began to target the Tutsi leaders and moderate Hutu politicians who had been on their death list for years. Thus the killing began. In 1994 the Rwanda Hutu government launched a systematic genocide of their minority Tutsi citizens. In four months ( 100 days), government forced and militia murder approximately 800,000 Tutsi, and any Hutu reluctant to join in, they slaughtered. The Tutsi’s were separated from the Hutu’s and were beaten to death with machetes, or knives. On April 8, 1994 the RPF (Rwanda Patriotic front) which was made up of about 14,000 Tutsi refuges, initialed a major campaign to end the genocide and rescued 600 of its troops around Kigalia. This failed.
This genocide includes seven stages of genocide. It did not include the eighth stage because they did not deny it happening, but did say it was not genocide.
Rwanda’s economy still suffered from this tragedy, and there is little hope of a quick recovery. The reason is that there is still a huge amount of resentment between the two groups. Tutsis are increasingly convinced that the only way to ensure their survival is to repress the Hutu, and the Hutu’s believe they have been proclaimed guilty by association and that no one cares about their suffering under the current Tutsi-led government. Extremist on both side retain the belief that the only solution is the annihilation of the other.