Historical Background
This African country experienced genocide in 1994.
What is Rwanda?
The two primary ethnic groups involved in the genocide.
Who are the Hutu and the Tutsi?
The genocide began in this month and year.
What is April 1994?
The UN peacekeeping mission stationed in Rwanda during the genocide.
What is UNAMIR? (United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda)
Approximately this many people were killed in the genocide.
What is about 800,000?
The genocide lasted for approximately this length of time.
What is approximately 100 days?
The European power that ruled Rwanda after World War I.
Who were the Belgians?
This Hutu extremist militia carried out many of the killings.
Who are the Interahamwe?
After violence escalated, many UN troops from this country were withdrawn.
Who is Belgium?
After the genocide, millions of Rwandans fled to neighboring countries creating this crisis.
What is a refugee crisis?
This event ended the genocide and brought a new government to power.
What is the victory of the RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front)?
Colonial authorities deepened ethnic divisions by issuing these documents.
What are ethnic identity cards?
This radio station spread propaganda and directed attacks during the genocide.
What is Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM)?
This UN commander repeatedly warned the UN about impending genocide.
Who is Roméo Dallaire?
This international tribunal prosecuted major genocide leaders.
What is the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)?
The genocide began shortly after this president’s plane was shot down.
Who was President Juvénal Habyarimana?
This extremist Hutu ideology promoted violence against Tutsis.
What is Hutu power?
Roadblocks were used to identify victims using these documents.
What are identity cards?
Despite clear evidence, many countries avoided using this legal term.
What is genocide?
Annual national events commemorate the genocide and promote remembrance, known by this name.
What is Kwibuka?
Before colonial rule, Hutu and Tutsi identities were largely based on this factor.
What is social and economic status? (such as cattle ownership)
This false colonial belief claimed Tutsis were racially superior and contributed to long-term resentment.
What is the Hamitic Hypothesis?
The genocide ended when this force captured Kigali in July 1994.
What is the Rwandan Patriotic Front? (RPF)
This UN agreement legally obligated countries to prevent and punish genocide.
What is the Genocide Convention?
Community-based courts used to try lower-level genocide suspects.
What is Gacaca courts?