RWanda

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Conflict

• Where? Rwanda's Captial, Kigali  
• What is the Conflict?  The Tutsis and Hutu's are fighting

"This genocide resulted from the deliberate choice of a modern elite to foster hatred and fear to keep itself in power. This small, privileged group first set the majority against the minority to counter a growing political opposition within Rwanda. Then, faced with RPF success on the battlefield and at the negotiating table, these few powerholders transformed the strategy of ethnic division into genocide. They believed that the extermination campaign would restore the solidarity of the Hutu under their leadership and help them win the war, or at least improve their chances of negotiating a favorable peace. They seized control of the state and used its machinery and its authority to carry out the slaughter." -Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda
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Solutions Failed

JEan Paul Akayesu

Jean Paul, A political Leader and Mayor of Taba, was the first convicted for Genocide in Rwanda.
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Major General Juvenal Habyarimana

A moderate Hutu, Habyarimana was the sole leader of Rwandan government for the next two decades, Habyarimana founded a new political party, the National Revolutionary Movement for Development.
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Question

• What was Rwandas Capital?
• Who were two leaders of Rwanda's Genocide?
• Who were the two groups fighting?