The Rwandan Genocide
The Definition of Genocide
The Animosity Continues
When the president of Rwanda, Juvenai Habyarimana, was assassinated by a surface-to-air missile; The conflict between groups continued.
Thousands Murdered.
"800,000 Tutsi tribe members were systimatically slaughtered" (Melvern 10). Bodies were dumped in piles on the sides of the roads. "The bodies were not allowed to be buried but only to rot" (Rosenberg). Women had the worst of it. Most men were shot or decapitated. Women were mutilated, cut up, and burned or buried alive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6svZaKF1sHg&edufilter=0NsmCsBD3UGorqyU6yfFOg
This Animosity Went for 35 Years
Skulls
These are the skulls of the victims of the genocide
Bodies on the side of the road
These are the bodies that were dumped on the side of a road in Africa
Machetes
These are the machetes used to kill hundereds of thousands
The Massacre Finally Stopped in 1994
What the world did to stop it.
The RPF stepped in and took control of the situation They asked the world to do all they could; they demanded for this massacre to stop, immediately.