Extract
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: A Report from the Field.
On 6 April 1994 a plane carrying the president of Rwanda was shot down on its approach into his country s capital, Kigali. The president, Juvenal Habyarimana, was a member of the Hutu ethnic group, one of three principal ethnic groups residing in Rwanda. At that time, approximately 85 percent of the Rwandan population were Hutu, 10 to 15 percent were Tutsi, while less than 1 percent were members of the Twa ethnicity. When his plane was shot down, President Habyarimana was returning from an international conference designed to ensure the implementation of a power-sharing agreement among various political parties, some of which were primarily divided along ethnic lines. Immediately following the plane crash an interim government that was predominantly Hutu took control and massacres commenced throughout the country. Thousands of men, women and children were violently killed in these massacres, which were designed to exterminate the Tutsis and eli...
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