In the early 1900s Rwanda's population was 88% Hutu, 14% tutsi, and 1% Twa. Around 1944, Rwanda began to see increasing problems in the country's social, economic, and political aspects and Rwanda's political elite blamed the Tutsi minority for it all.
The Tutsi civilians were also acused of forming a rebellious group. Propaganda was used to increase the division between the Hutu and the Tutsi. The Hutu feared and resented the minority. The violence began immediately after President Habyariman, a Hutu, was shot down on April 6, 1994 from his airplane. Hutu extremisists began planning their plans to destroy all the Tutsi civilians. Any politician who tried to stop or opposed the plans was killed. Whole families were killed at a time. Women were raped systematically and brutally. Only weeks after President Habyariman's assassination 800,000 men, women, and children had been killed and had completely vanished in the Rwanda genocide. Many Hutu were also killed for opposing the plans, and the people directing the killings. The major cause of the war was to spark fear in the minority to maintain themselves in power. The Huti transformed ethnic division into a major minority genocide. They took advantage of their authority to carry out the massacre. The Rwanda Genocide only ended when the Tutsi rebel group (RPF) defeated the Hutu and President Paul Kagame took control. The differences never really vanished or diminished.
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