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This was important because everyone was labelled so later it was easier to tell who gets killed
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The Hutu´s didn´t feel like they had enough power and started the rebellion, this was important because it started the civil war.
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Grégoire Kayibanda was chosen as a president. He led the Rwandan Independence Movement and was involved in the dissolution of the Tutsi kingdom during Rwandan independence.
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The RPF was created by Tutsis who ran away to Uganda and it will have a significant role in the genocide
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In 1990, the RPF invaded Rwanda from Uganda. The group's goal was to take control of Rwanda. The Rwandan Hutu-led government also had other problems: the country was heavily indebted and had trouble feeding the people. Because of these problems and the invasion of the patriotic front, the Hutu government surrendered some power to the Tutsi under the Arusha Peace Treaty in August 1993.
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A day after the Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana is killed in a plane crash the Hutus strat the mass murders they had been planning for a long time. h
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April 9, 1994:
Hundreds of Tutsis are killed in the Pallottine Missionary Catholic Church. Since the killers were clearly targeting only Tutsi, the Gikondo massacre was the first clear sign that a genocide was occurring. -
April 18, 1994: The Kibuye Massacres. An estimated 12,000 Tutsis are killed after sheltering at the Gatwaro stadium in Gitesi. Another 50,000 are killed in the hills of Bisesero. More are killed in the town's hospital and church.
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This was the start of ending the genocide and Tutsis winning.
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100 days after it started and 800,000 dead Tutsis and moderate Hutus the genocide of Rwanda ended by RPF gaining the control of the country