IB WORLD HISTORY RWANDA

Interehamwe

Youth militia trained by the military, armed with machetes, offered land in return for killing, manned roadblocks. 

Belgium

Created the ethnic division between Tutsi and Hutu, first to withdraw their UN Peacekeepers 

“Genocide Cable”

General Dellarie of the UN received information from a Hutu source that the Hutu government was planning the genocide, The UN refused to help Dellarie. 

Paul Kagame

 Leader of the Tutsi Rebels, ends the genocide by taking Kigali from the Hutu, becomes president of Rwanda after 1994.

Arusha Accords

Peace treaty signed by Kagame and Habyriama, that led to the assassination of Habyriama for betraying the “Hutu Power” movement. 

France

 Supported the Hutu government during the Genocide by creating safe zones (Operation Turquise) for Hutu and lobbying against UN involvement in Rwanda. 

Kangura

Magazine that promoted Hutu Power propaganda and the killing of Tutsi. 

RTLM

Most successful hate radio, would broadcast Hutu Power propaganda calling Tutsi cockroaches, and gave out the addresses of surviving Tutsis.

Habyriama

Hutu Power president who signed the Arusha Accords, assassinated by his own Hutu Power Party to incite the Genocide 

ICTR

Courts set up by the UN to deliver verdicts for those guilty of genocide, first time sexual violence was acknowledged as a means of committing genocide. 

UNAMIR

UN Mission in Rwanda led by Romeo Dellarie of Canada, abandoned by the UN security council. 

RPF

Created by Tutsi refugees in Uganda, fought the Hutu Government for the return of the Tutsi displaced in the “Winds of Destruction”. Now the ruling political party in Rwanda 

Shadow of Somalia

Foreign Policy followed by the American Government that limited their involvement in Rwanda (Black hawk down incident) Made America hesitant to get involved in African crises

Operation Amaryllis

French evatuation plan to get western citizens out of Rwanda on April 9th