Rewanda
...or even worse–your own family. No one is coming to help you and the chaotic murders are not some breed of madman but people from the community, possible people you even know like your teacher, your neighbor, or maybe your own family. The streets are filled with mutilated corpses; pandemonium is all around you. This type of madness is the reality marking the present situation of Rwanda, especially the reality during the genocide of 1994 where the Hutu rebels massacred over a million Tutsi citizens in under a year.
When the Rwandan president was assassinated by the Hutu rebels, having signed a peace agreement between the Tutsis and Hutus, the Hutu rebels claimed the Tutsi were responsible and used this false claim as a trigger to put the Rwanda Genocide into effect. This false allegation by the Hutu rebels allowed the Hutu rebels to form together, using military weapons illegally bought from France, and under the guise of a fake justification murder numerous innocent Tutsi civilians and any Hutu who may have defied them. This genocide was all encompassing, in fact even the Rwanda military was involved. The only body that helped was the UN, whom sadly did not do much to stop (or prevent) the genocide either.
The roots of the Rwandan genocide can be traced back to the fourteenth century when the Hutu settled in the region know today as Rwanda. In Rwanda, Tutsi immigrants started to dominate the Hutu. During World War One Belgium gained control over Rwanda and because of their favoritism for the Tutsi the Belgians put the Tutsi minority into power over the greater majority population of Hutu. After World War One, there were years of ethnic wars between the two tribes, heightened because of the Belgian's placement of the Tutsi minority into power over the Hutu majority. During these tension the Hutus drove out the Tutsi King and demanded an independent republic....
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