"Soon there were too many bodies and no one left to dig graves."
Jean Paul
Jean Paul
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In 1994, nearly one million people in Rwanda were slaughtered by Hutu extremists in only 100 days. Hutu killers were merciless, murdering every Tutsi they encountered. Machetes were used to cut off limbs or split skulls open. Often, they would cut their victims, not actually killing them, but leaving them to die slowly. The Rwandan Genocide was a kill or be killed situation; Hutu extremists killed moderate Hutus in addition to Tutsis.
"Kill the Tutsi big and small...kill them one and kill them all."
Hutu Killer Chant |
"What looks very much like genocide has been taking place in Rwanda. People are pulled from cars and buses, ordered to show their identity papers and then killed on the spot if they belong to the wrong ethnic group."
Time Magazine
Time Magazine
“Then they started killing, hacking with their machetes. They kept doing it, and I was hiding under dead people. They didn't kill me. Because of the blood covering me, they thought they had killed me. I hid in a small room. That's where I stayed and slept for 43 days.”
Valentina Iribagiza |
Rwandan Genocide: PBS.
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Additionally, as many as 250,000 women were raped during the Rwandan Genocide.
"They would find women who were hidden, take them to their place, and then chase them out after a day or two,
after having done what he wanted to do."
Emmanuel Nyirimbuga
after having done what he wanted to do."
Emmanuel Nyirimbuga
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The day after the president's assassination, the Hutu hate radio, Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM), began broadcasting. The media had significant influence because it dehumanized the Tutsis and urged Hutus to kill them.
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