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Challenges Facing Africa in 1953-2009

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 * //Beginning on //**[[image:rwanda_bones150.jpg align="left" caption="Bones of Massacred Tutsis" link="http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_rwanda1.html"]]**//April 6, 1994, and for the next hundred days, up to 800,000 Tutsis were killed by Hutu militia using clubs and machetes, with as many as 10,000 killed each day.millions of people died before the reversed path forwarding (rpf) was able to take control.No one tried to keep the genocide in Rwanda a secret. Bodies wouldbe lying on the streets covered with huge leaves so that people wouldnt be able to see it when taking pictures. Bones of massacred Tutsis which were all the bones of the Tutsis's bodies after they //**[[image:genocide_in_rwanda_1.jpg align="right" caption="skulls of the people killed during the genocide" link="http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/Genocide/genocide_in_rwanda.htm"]] **// died . Because of the conflict between the Tutsis and the Hutus, Rwanda experienced Africa's worst genocide during the modern times. The conflict had origins in Belgium's colonial rule, which favored the minority Tutsis and forced differences between the two groups. In 1962, the country gained independence, Gregoire Kayibanda leaded the first recognized Hutu government. Juvenal Habyarimana seized power in a military coup a decade later, following the massacre of thousands of Hutus in neighboring Burundi. For nearly twenty years under Habyarimana, suffered from outbreaks of violence.

The government of Rwanda surprised everyone by declaring a suspension on arrests of suspected genocidaries. The two groups Hutu and Tutsi that were apart of the genocide were the main cause of the genocide starting. The new president's message was repeated: "The Rwandan people were able to live together peacefully for six hundred years and there is no reason why they cant live togther .Let me appeal to those who have chosen the murderous and confrontational path, by reminding them that they too, are Rwandans: abandoned your genocidal and destructive ways, join hand with other Rwandans, and put that energy to better use." In March of 1998, on a visit to Rwanda, President Clinton issued what would later be known as the "Clinton apology," which was actually a carefully avoided acknowledgment. He spoke to the crowd assembled on the tarmac at Kigali Airport: "We come here today partly in recognition of the fact that we in the United States and the world community did not do as much as we could have and should have done to try to limit what occurred" in Rwanda.



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