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Post by Sayari's other half on Mar 13, 2010 3:43:19 GMT -5
It is April the 6th 1994. A rocket propelled grenade has struck the plane in which President Juvénal Habyarimana and President Cyprien Ntaryamira were being carried, after recent negotiations. UN protection is stationed around Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. The Prime Minister has been killed and her guard of 10 UN soldiers are missing. The Hutus, the ethnic majority have become radical, claiming a coup on the part of the Tutsis. They go from house to house, killling any Tutsis they find. Even moderate Hutus. No mercy is shown. Tutsis take refuge in schools and churches nearby, hoping they would be safe. The 10 UN soldiers, Belgian, are found dead, they were executed. Armed with machetes and pure hatred 800 000 Tutsis were murdered in a matter of a few months. No one was safe. The UN reduced its force from 2500 to merely 250 troops. This was no unplanned killing spree. (to be continued!)
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Post by ldsgirl Aka Sayari on Mar 13, 2010 20:43:02 GMT -5
I'll be following this thread!
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Post by begood2 on Mar 14, 2010 14:15:57 GMT -5
It sounds like an interesting thread!
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Post by Sayari's other half on Apr 5, 2010 10:44:27 GMT -5
"In 1957, the Hutu Emancipation Movement (Parmehutu) published the Hutu Manifesto (sometimes called "Bahutu Manifesto"), in which it alleged a monopoly of power held by the Tutsi minority. In the 1960s, these denunciations led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the Republic headed by Gregoire Kayibanda. This was a regime which persecuted the Tutsi, who in many cases were forced to flee. The persecution also went on under the regime of Juvénal Habyarimana who had seized power in 1973 and promised progress.
In neighboring Burundi, since its independence in 1962, there were two preceding genocides. The 1972 mass-killings of Hutu by the Tutsi army, [5] and the 1994 killing of Tutsi by the Hutu population."
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