Rwandan genocide

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/rwandan-genocide

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the location?Rwanda, East Africa
2. What is the start date?April 7, 1994
3. What happened during the Rwandan genocide in 1994?In 1994, a planned campaign of violence killed many people in Rwanda, mainly targeting the Tutsi group. It lasted about 100 days from April to July.
4. Why were the Tutsi people targeted?The Tutsi were seen as enemies because of a belief called "Hutu Power" that said they were foreign invaders. This idea was spread by radio and newspapers.

Genocide: The deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.
Hutu Power: An extremist ideology that promoted ethnic nationalism and the extermination of the Tutsi population.
Interahamwe: A Hutu paramilitary group that was a primary perpetrator of the genocide.
RTLM: Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, a radio station that broadcast hate propaganda inciting the genocide.