Rwandan Genocide
1994 African atrocity
The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass murder of approximately 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu people by Hutu extremists over roughly 100 days.
The term now serves as shorthand for rapid, systematic ethnic slaughter and international failure to intervene: The world stood by during the Rwandan Genocide.
It reshaped discourse on humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect.
- TutsiRwandan ethnic group
- HutuCentral African ethnic group
- macheteHeavy broad-bladed knife
- 1994A calendar year
- KigaliRwanda's capital city
massacre · ethnic · ethnic cleansing · slaughter · mass graves · refugees · peacekeeping forces · international community · reconciliation · bloodshed · atrocity · neighbors · churches · roadblocks · identity cards · Burundi · Congo · survivors
- Historical TragediesHolocaust, massacre, atrocity, ethnic cleansing, 9/11
- persecutionHolocaust, pogrom, pogroms, ethnic cleansing, mass murder
- atrocitiesHolocaust, massacre, massacres, ethnic cleansing, mass execution
- Atrocity SitesAuschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Sachsenhausen, Warsaw Ghetto
- Mass Deathswar casualties, pandemic deaths, massacres, mass starvation, Holocaust
- RwandaKigali, Hutu, Tutsi, 1994, memorial sites
Rwandan Genocidepeacekeeping mission
Military effort to prevent conflict
Berlin Airlift · Dunkirk evacuation · rescue operation · liberation
Rwandan Genocidenational healing
Societal reconciliation after division
Rwandan Genocideinternational solidarity
Mutual support across nations
Marshall Plan · coalition of the willing · Berlin Airlift · diplomatic resolution
Rwanda, Rwandan, genocide, genocides, genocidal, gene, generic, generate, generation