When did the rwanda genocide start and end ? please help.....?

Question: When did the rwanda genocide start and end !? please help!.!.!.!.!.!?

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it started April 6th 1994

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The 1994 Rwanda Genocide!?
Well, it started in 1994 and ended on, well it hasn't!.
Although, in March 2005 the Hutus ended their armed struggle!.
Some people estimates the death toll around the 800,000 and 1,000,000!.
It was between the Hutus and Tutsis!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Another notorious instance of genocide involved the murder of an estimated 500,000 to 1 million people, primarily ethnic Tutus and moderate Hutus at the hands of the majority Hutus in Rwanda in 1994!. The Rwandan conflict was the third largest genocide of the 20th century!. Where the Balkans had been marked by historic conflicts between the various communities, traditional Rwandan society was highly integrated, despite the fact that the society was peopled by what would appear to be three different races – the Twa (or ‘pygmies’) who comprised some 1% of the population, the Hutus who comprised some 85%, and the Tutsis who comprised the balance (according to the 1933 census, Gourevitch 1998: 57)!. The Hutus and Tutsis were traditionally characterized by quite different physiques—the former like the Bantu-speakers of central Africa, the latter more resembling the taller, thinner people of Ethiopia!. Over time, the various groups evolved a common language and system of governance!. In the 20th century, the majority was converted to Catholicism by the Belgian colonial authorities who displaced the German colonial powers in 1916!.

The major division between Tutsis and Hutus was in terms of livelihood!. The former were traditionally cattlemen, the Hutus were farmers, and there was some economic advantage associated with wealth in cattle!. When Europeans expropriated the control of Rwandan society, they delegated the Hutus to demeaning work and a degraded political status, and brought them under the control of Tutsi chiefs and civil servants!. The Tutsis enjoyed favoritism in education and enjoyed a monopoly of administration and political jobs!. In 1933 the Belgians issued mandatory identity cards specifying tribal origins!. For the European colonialists, the Tutsis were viewed as one of the lost tribes of Israel (the Hamites), and the Hutus little better than savages!. A society that had enjoyed harmony and prosperity was brought into a state of discrimination and resentment under colonial control!. However, there was no significant expression of this politically until the Hutu manifesto of 1957!. Rather than seeking an abolition of the identity cards and their underlying racist presuppositions, Hutus organized for ‘democracy’, meaning majority rule, social emancipation and restrictions on the political and educational opportunities for Tutsis!. The tide changed against the Tutsis as a new generation of European post-colonialists sided openly with the majority against the minority!. A popular rebellion against the Tutsis was supported by the Belgians, and the first of many waves of Tutsis fled in exile to neighboring countries!.

In the early 1960s, attacks on Rwanda by displaced Tutsis resulted in reprisal massacres against Tutsis within Rwanda followed by more refugee departures!. Hutus in neighboring Burundi were massacred by Tutsi refugees followed by more reprisals in Rwanda!. A generation of Tutsi refugees began organizing in Tanzania, Uganda and Zaire for the right of return, for the end of the de facto apartheid system in Rwanda and for an end to the one-party dictatorship of Hutu ultra-nationals!. In 1986, the Kigali government dismissed out of hand the right of refugees to return home!. The Rwandan Alliance for National Union, a foreign-based alliance of moderate Hutus and Tutsis, was superceded by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, a political movement created to change conditions in Rwanda by military force!. Civil war broke out in 1990 with the invasion of Rwanda by the RPF!. The first invasion turned out to be a disastrous military event for the RPF and was repulsed with the help of French military aid!. Three hundred thousand new refugees left the country as thousands of Tutsis were massacred and tens of thousands detained as RPF sympathizers!. The government of Juvenal Habyarimana began to acquire massive levels of small arms and explosives in a series of secret purchases from Egypt and France!. The army was expanded from 5,000 to 28,000, and the security forces began to organize civilian militias, the “interahamwe”, or ‘those who work together’!. The Hutu political elite began to talk openly about the need to remove every Tutsi from Rwandan society!. In April 1994 President Habyarimana’s plane was shot down as it approached Kigali en route back from peace talks with the RPF!. This incident changed the low levels of killings that had become increasingly frequent into a total genocidal bloodbath that lasted three months!. It came to an end with the defeat of the army by the RPF in July, 1994!. At that point, 1 million Hutu refugees left Rwanda!.Www@QuestionHome@Com