From April to July 1994, in approximately 100 days, approximately 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda by Hutu extremists. The Hutu extremists were said to only target the minority ethnic group called "Tutsi", but they were found to also kill all their political enemies regardless of their race. The Tutsi race has long maintained control over the Rwandan government because, although they only make up about 14% of Rwanda's population, the Europeans who took control of the country chose them because they were said to be more like Europeans than Hutus. The Hutus subsequently began an independence revolt which the Belgian, who controlled the country at the time, quickly ended by letting the Hutus lead the government instead of the Tutsis. Of course, this did not make the Hutus forget the years of oppression they suffered at the hands of the Tutsis. So, naturally, there were Hutus who believed that the Tutsi race should be exterminated. These people were called Hutu extremists. Hutu extremists within the government blamed the Tutsis as a whole for the country's poverty...
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