RWANDAN GENOCIDE: HOW DID THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ACT?

Abstract

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda asked the Habyarimana to implement the accords. On 6 April 1994, President Habyarimana plane was shot near Kigali Airport while returning from Dar es Salam. The plane plunged to earth, and President Habyarimana, President of Burundi Cyprien Ntaryamira, and everyone else on board was killed. The Hutu blamed the RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front) for the incident. RPF was founded by the Tutsi elites who flee from neighboring countries. Following this incidents genocide and war happened in Rwanda and approximately 800,000 Tutsi and between 10,000 and 30,000 Hutu, or 11 percent of Rwanda’s total population, were killed during the genocide. Around 2,000,000 people were forced to migrate within Rwanda, and the same number of Hutu fled to Burundi, Tanzania, and Zaire. Critics argued that the International Community intentionally and unintentionally remained reluctant during Rwanda’s civil war and genocide. If the international community couldn’t avoid the civil war and genocide, they could have a humanitarian intervention to decrease casualties.