Editing Rwandan Genocide (section)

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|image = Rwandan Genocide wanted poster.jpg
|perpetrator = [[MRND]]<br>[[Interahamwe]]<br>''[[Akazu]]''<br>[[Impuzamugambi]]<br>[[Coalition for the Defence of the Republic]]<br>[[Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines]]<br>''[[Kangura]]''
|date = April 7, 1994 - July 15, 1994
|location = Rwanda
|motive = To exterminate all Tutsis in Rwanda (failed)
|crimes = [[Genocide]]<br>Mass [[murder]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>[[Rape]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]<br>[[Misogyny]]<br>[[Xenophobia]]|name=Rwandan Genocide}}
{{Quote|In 1994 in the small African country of Rwanda, an estimated 75% of its minority Tutsi population was slaughtered in the most efficient genocide in history. In a mere 100 days, nearly a million people have killed a shocking average of 333 murders per hour. 5 per minute. Whether man, woman, or child no one was spared. This deeply interred genocide was the product of a generation of ethnic division and was executed through a carefully planned campaign of Hutu propaganda.|Introduction to a documentary about the Rwandan Genocide.}}
The '''Rwandan Genocide''' was a genocidal mass slaughter that took place in the spring and summer of 1994 in the East African country of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda Rwanda]. Over the course of approximately 100 days (from the assassination of President [[Juvénal Habyarimana]] on April 6<sup>th</sup> through mid-July) over 500,000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate.<ref name = genocide>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26875506 Rwanda genocide: 100 days of slaughter], ''BBC News''</ref>

Estimates of the death toll have ranged in totally 1,000,000, the 20% of the country's total population.<ref>[https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_POPU_504_0401--the-death-toll-of-the-rwandan-genocide-a.htm The Death Toll of the Rwandan Genocide: A Detailed Analysis for Gikongoro Province], Cairn International</ref> It was the culmination of longstanding ethnic competition and tensions between the minority Tutsi, who had controlled power for centuries, and the majority Hutu peoples, who had come to power in the rebellion of 1959–62.