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Movie review: ‘Kinyarwanda ... a roughly 100-day nightmare that pit that country’s Hutu majority against its Tutsi minority, resulting in as many as a million violent deaths.
The region’s first occurred in neighboring Burundi in July 1972, in which about 200,000 to 300,000 Hutus were killed by Tutsis using an abortive Hutu insurrection as a trigger.
The attack mobilised Hutu government soldiers and allied extremist militia, who orchestrated the genocide to exterminate the Tutsi minority. What was the death toll? As many as 10,000 people were ...
The Tutsis fled and formed a rebel army that returned in the 1990s. In 1994, more than 800,000 Tutsis were brutally murdered by the Hutu in 100 days. This is the period in which the movie takes place.
Enraged, gangs of Hutu extremists began killing Tutsi, backed by the army and police. A Belgian soldier guards the front of a house, where Belgians wait to be evacuated out of Kigali, Rwanda ...
In 1994, as many as one million people – overwhelmingly Tutsi, but also Hutu and others who opposed the genocide – were systematically killed in 100 days of the atrocities, ...
The Hutu president’s death gave rise to a frenzy of hatred, fuelled by virulent anti-Tutsi propaganda. Almost as soon as it was over, historians began to study how events unfolded.
Dusabimana is a Hutu and she was a helper. She risked her life, and the life of her family, to help Tutsi men, women and children escape the country, as hundreds of thousands were killed in a ...