RWANDAN GENOCIDE - The Unspeakable Evils of Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in RwandaThere are few crimes more heinous than murder, ending an innocent human life is an unforgivable act that's consequences cannot be taken back. And yet, there are occasions where murder is taken to a new extreme in the form of genocide. In 1948, a group called The United Nations Genocide Convention was founded and as the experts on genocide, they define it as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group."
With how far humanity has come as a whole, it's easy to think that something as terribly monstrous as the intentional targeting of a single group of people for mass murder with the hope of total extinction would be something the world hasn't seen in centuries. Unfortunately, that isn't true.
One such group to suffer an event to fit that definition was the Tutsi people in Rwanda. They were targeted during a period that lasted 100 days in 1994 by members of the majority government of Hutu and it is estimated that 500,000 to 1,000,000 Rwandan lives were taken. The genocide began on April 7th and lasted until July 15th. The Tutsi lost as much s 70% of its population and the Pygmy Batwa suffered the loss of 30% of their population as well.
This is the true story of the horrific evils that led up to the Rwandan genocide, one of the most evil mass murders of modern times.