Genocide in Rawanda

By KouhaiKitten

  • Berlin Conference

    Berlin Conference
    European countries divieded up all of Africa so that they could be able to rule without fighting over the land.

  • Belgium gains control of Rwanda

    Belgium gains control of Rwanda
    Germany loses the war and Belgium takes over Rwanda.

  • Rwanda gains independance

    Rwanda gains independance
    When Rwanda gains its independance and the Hutus control.

  • Civil war begins

    Hutus gain control of the government and elect a president

  • Genocide

    A genocide begins between the hutus and the tutsis, where 800,000 people die in 100 days

  • RPF ends the genocide

    RPF takes control of the governement once agin when they win the war.

  • War crimes trials begin

    Courts run in Tanzania by the UN and other courts in Rwanda.

  • Apology from president clinton

    The leader of the UN and president Clinton apologizes for not helping to stop the war.

  • 26 Defendants executed

    26 people were killed for their crimes

  • Gacaca courts to be set up

    Trials were breif and the sentences were very light for their crimes