Causes+and+Effects

=__Causes __=
 * The tensions between the majority Hutus and the Tutsis, who were seen as the elite members of society
 * The Belgian colonial rule, which rewarded Tutsis with a Western education, and denyied political and economic power to the Hutus
 * Rwandan Independence, in 1963, when the Tutsis were disciminated against, and went into exile in Uganda
 * The Civil War, when the Tutsis returned to Rwanda in 1990, a civil war broke out, ending in a cease-fire, signed by the Hutu president, and presided over by the United Nations peacekeeping force
 * President Habyariman, a Hutu, was shot down on April 6th, 1994. The Hutus blamed the Tutsi for this, and they started a massacre.

= = = = =__ Eff ects __=
 * The mass murder of almost 75% of the Tutsi population
 * Nearly 9% of the adult population is HIV-positive
 * By 1997, the Tutsi ran the government
 * The UN Security Council established International Criminal Tribunal