The Rwandan Genocide

Who was involved?

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Agathe Uwilingiyimana
    Many people can be said responsible and even connected to the many deaths in Rwanda. One were the groups of Hutu extremists that killed the Tutsi civilians among some Hutu politicians on their death list. The Hutus killed their own neighbors just because they were Tutsis.The murder of the Tutsis was carried out mostly by the president’s force of guards and the armed militia known as Interahamwe. Agathe, the wife of the deceased President Juvenal Habyarimana was the founder of the extremist Hutu society Akazu. Over 800,000 Tutsis were killed by the Hutu with clubs and machetes. France also bears a responsibility in the genocide. The president of France back in 1994 was François Mitterrand and he was friends with President Habyarimana and his wife Agathe. Mitterrand decided not to take heed of the first massacres of the Tutsis and overlooked it. Later French troops were dispatched in Rwanda and there, they trained their Hutu pupils the proper way of torturing the Tutsis.

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François Mitterrand