The genocide in Rwandan was the mass killing of the Tutsis and moderate Hutus by the Hutu majority population. During the approximate 100-day period from around 500,000–1,000,000 Rwandans were killed, who made up nearly 20% of the country’s total population and 70% of the Tutsi then that lived in Rwanda. The genocide was the work of   the main political elite known as the akazu. Nearly all were high-ranking members of the national government. The killer’s were from the Hutu militias and included Hutu civilians. The mass slaughter took place because of the Rwandan Civil War, and continuing conflict which began in 1990 between the Hutu-led government and the Rwandan Patriotic Front. […]