![]() ![]() Over 100,000 Hutus were also killed, including both moderate Hutus killed by Hutu extremists and those killed by Tutsis in so-called "revenge killings." The Hutu-controlled government and allied militias slaughtered between 800,000 and one million Tutsis before a Tutsi rebel group overthrew them. ![]() The Rwandan genocide was a systematic campaign by the Hutu ethnic majority a imed at wiping out each and every member of the minority Tutsi group. Here's what you need to know about how 1 million people were systematically slaughtered, why it happened, how it changed the world, and where Rwanda stands today. What may have gotten lost in all of this is what actually happened in Rwanda, a land-locked, Maryland-sized country in central Africa. This week marks 20 years since the start of the genocide in Rwanda, so the world has spent some time reflecting on one of the most horrifying - and most defining - events in post-Cold War history.
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