Rwandan Genocide

Colonization

Belgium favors Tutsi over Hutus

1959

Hutu Revolution

1962

Belgium grants Rwanda independence, power to Hutus

Burundi = Tutsi majority, Rwanda = Hutu majority

1990

Hutus form Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and invade under the army from the north

Civil War

Hutu Ten Commandments, anti-Tutsi propaganda

1993

Arusha Accords

Hutus import machetes

End of Civil War

UN peacekeepers stationed

April 1994

April 6th: missile strikes down plane with Rwandan Hutu president

April 11th: Ecole Technique Officiale massacre, UN peacekeepers & Tutsis killed

100 day genocide begins

July 1994

July 19th: RPF captures Kigali, Hutu defeated

International community response

Refugee crisis begins