How and why did the Rwandan Genocide Occur?
The Rwandan genocide was the worst failure of the United Nations, which they allowed to develop, (Fitzgerald, 2013). Before the genocide occurred many obvious events implied a conflict as the Hutus and Tutsis were in a civil war since 1990. The tension started in 1994 when the president’s plane crashed and the Hutus blamed the Tutsis for the country’s social, political and economic pressures. Families were slaughtered in their houses, women raped and beaten and children were left orphaned. Three quarters of the Tutsis population (800,000) had been murdered alongside Hutus who opposed the killings, (www.unitedhumanrights.org, 13/4/13). The shocking evidence implies the UN was warned on numerous occasions the severity of the conflict leading to the genocide yet they did not take the correct procedure in preventing conflict or peace keeping (www.tigweb.org, 2004).