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belgians take over, rwanda losses independence.
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everyone issued mandate card claaifying them as hutu tutsi or twa.
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hutu clan begin to rebell aginst the tutsi annd belgian goverment
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Tutsi monchary ios abolished by the cruel belgian colonizers.
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Rwanda wins independence. Europeans left due to the power Hutu's were gaing over Tutsi's.
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Juvénal Habyarimana takes over as rawanda's president.
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stands for the Rawanda patriotic front created by the Tutsi refugee diaspora in Uganda.
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Cofee sells plumett which really has a huge effect on rwanda since cofee was a major cash crop.
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the RPF invaded northern Rwanda from Uganda in an attempt to defeat the Hutu-led government. They began the Rwandan Civil War, fought between the Hutu regime, with support from Africa and France RPF, with support from Uganda.
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this day begain the new constitution to allow many different political party's.the Mouvement démocratique républicain (MDR), the Parti Social Démocrat (PSD), the Parti Libéral (PL), and the Parti Démocratique Centriste (PDC).
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RTLM (Radio Télévison des Milles Collines begins broadcasting.
it projected racist propaganda against Tutsis, moderate Hutus, Belgians, and the United Nations mission UNAMIR.Félicien Kabuga was heavily involved in the founding and bankrolling of RTLm. -
Arusha accords were created and agrreed uoon that both the Hutu and Tutsi could hold government postion.
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Rwanda's president Juvénal Habyarimana along with the president of Burundi Cyprian Ntayamira is killed when his plane is shot out of the sky.
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Massacre at Gikondo hundreds of Tutsis are killed in the Pallottine Missionary Catholic Church. Others were severly injured
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Massacre at the Nyarubuye Roman Catholic Church - thousands of Tutsi are killed, first by grenades and guns and then by machetes and clubs. ahautu speaks sying they want revenge.
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More than 250,000 people mostly of the tutsi populations run to there neighboring countrys tanzania
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RPF take control of presidential palace in Rwanda.
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France establish a safety zone in the southwest corner of rawanda
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Approximately one million people, mostly Hutu, begin fleeing to Zaire (now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
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The Rwanda Genocide ends when the RPF gains control of the country.
