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Rwandan Genocide

The excerpt highlights the devastating events that took place in Rwanda after the assassination of President Habyarimana on April 6, 1994, which triggered a wave of violence and genocide against the Tutsi community.

Almost immediately after President Habyarimana was killed, in Kigali the Presidential Guard began the systematic execution of prominent Tutsi and moderate Hutus sympathetic to reconciliation. Multiple sources indicate that the violence by the Presidential Guard and various youth militias was not spontaneous, but was directed by high-level officials within the interim government. It appeals that, in addition to the random massacres of Tutsis by Hutu militias and individuals, there is an organized, parallel effort of genocide being implemented by the army to destroy the leadership of the Tutsi community . . . It continues to rate out of control.

Rwanda: The Rwandan Patriotic Front's Offensive, Key Judgements, 9 May 1994

Question 1

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Identify one immediate cause of the events described in the excerpt.

Question 2

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Identify one way that early 20th-century European imperialism influenced the events described in the excerpt.

Question 3

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Compare one action the international community took in response to the events described in the excerpt to an action the international community took in response to the Holocaust during World War II.

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