It started with one murder.

It ended with some 1,000,000.


The Rwandan genocide, which began 24 years ago this week, was one of the worst atrocities in living memory.

It took just 100 days to massacre as much as 20 percent of the country's population, decimate its infrastructure and sow the seeds of regional conflicts still to come.


The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, was a genocidal mass slaughter of Tutsi in Rwanda by members of the Hutu majority government.


An estimated 800,000 to 1,000,000 Rwandans were killed during the 100-day period from 7 April to mid-July 1994.



It is believed that 800,000 people were killed in the first six weeks, at a rate five times higher than that of the Nazi Holocaust.

Around one-fifth of the country's entire population was murdered.

Most of the dead were Tutsis, and most of the killers were Hutus. This was genocide; a concerted effort to exterminate an entire group of people.



Skulls of victims of the massacre during the 1994 genocide are lined in the Genocide Memorial Site church of Ntarama.








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The plane carrying Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, shown here in 1982, is shot down over Kigali.


Rwanda Patriotic Front rebels inspect the wreckage of the plane in which President Juvenal Habyarimana was killed when it crashed on 6 April, sparking the murder of hundreds of thousands of people

First political opponents are executed, then security forces and militia systematically murder members of the Tutsi minority, as well as moderate Hutus.


This photo, taken on April 11, shows a looter ransacking a house as its occupants lie dead.


Loads of ammunitions.

Sometimes in April and Hotel Rwanda are films that tries to reveal the genocides carried out in Rwanda. It's a clear reminder that genocide is a crime against God and humanity, something the Nigeria government sees otherwise. They not only removed BIAFRA war from history, they also tried to stop and censored the BIAFRA film that featured chiwetal Ejiofor.

What are they trying to hide? The genocide against igbos are in our folktales and Legends,folk songs, dirges, our entire genres of literature. The worst is being in oral traditions. My mom sings it sometimes. I find the dirges extremely thought provoking. Now it's in our media. My question is how do you want to kill this idea?Its not possible.Thw funny thing is many people and children today in igbo land.("..your name is Ejike and I named you after my brother that died during the war... "are named after a dead relative from the war. And the circle continues... I will tell same tale to my children and grandchildren. They must know and bear it in their hearts that there must be a price to pay to bring vengeance upon the killers of their ancestors.

They must know that their forefathers were rounded up in camps and shot dead by the Nigerian soldiers.
They must know that children were starved to death.
They must know that their mothers were raped, their foetus snatched off their bellies with swords.
They must know that their ancestors were buried alive.
They must not forget how Benue citizens butchered and slaughter families who are running from the north to Enugu through Benue.
They should remember that their women who refused to be sex slaves have their vagina riddled with bullets.

God cannot be fooled. There must be a price to pay. And truth to his word he kept many of those evil men alive to see this day.

Time shall tell.

Within days, France and Belgium deploy soldiers to evacuate their nationals.


They do not have orders to protect Rwandan civilians.

BankeSmalls:
The Biafran genocide of 1966-70 took 3,000,000 live, and Nigerians are trying to cover it up.

united nations at a time reported dat 10,000 biafran kids died on a daily basis..,due to starvation, straffing of dispensaries and foodlines.

Security forces, joined by members of the public, continue to massacre Tutsis at a rate of thousands per day.
Women are raped and sexually assaulted as part of the campaign to wipe out the ethnic group.


A Rwandan refugee girl stands next to a mass grave outside Kigali, where dozens of bodies were laid to rest.

Following

ihitenansa:
united nations at a time reported 10,000 dead biafran kids on a daily basis..,due to starvation, straffin of dispensaries and foodlines.

One can imagine the terror then. We don't even have a grave site to honour the victims of genocide. Well, I guess Benue state is doing that with their own people on our behalf.

Dead bodies lie along the side of a road about 70 kilometres north of the Rwanda/Tanzania border.


Fishermen pile up corpses for burial at Kasensero village in Uganda. The bodies were carried by the Akagera river from Rwanda into Lake Victoria.


A dying Rwandan woman tries to breastfeed her child next to hundreds of corpses waiting to be buried at a mass grave near the Munigi refugee camp in Zaire, where thousands of refugees succumbed to cholera or dehydration.


Corpes of massacre victims laying rotten in the border between Rwanda capital and Tanzania

This is what IPOB miscreants want for Ndigbo but God pass them. We had one in 1966 and those miscreants want another, thunder will strike them.

Sometimes in April...

War is bad....everything can be restored back after the war, the buildings, people can still unite...but the dead can never come back to life and their memories will stay with us forever...

I remember this movie hotel Rwanda and sometimes in April

Explorers:
The plane carrying Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, shown here in 1982, is shot down over Kigali.

1994 u mean?

ihitenansa:
united nations at a time reported 10,000 dead biafran kids on a daily basis..,due to starvation, straffin of dispensaries and foodlines.

A war is different from what the OP is talking about, listen to him first before advertising your IPOB Biafra here.

Rwanda Rwanda...

"They said many are called and few are chosen but I wish some wasn't chosen for the blood spilling of Rwanda"

Explorers abeg add "Graphic pictures" to the title
War is human's inhumanity to humans, a hinged on selfishness

Yyeske:
A war is different from what the OP is talking about, listen to him first before advertising your IPOB Biafra here.

do u have a brain at all?


so war or not, its ok to bomb kids on foodlines??

Displaced Rwandans collect water from a polluted lake near a refugee camp in Benako, Tanzania.

Refugees wait for relief food from the Red Cross near the border between Rwanda and Tanzania.

The effects of war.

For people praying for war all over the world, may your plans never work

ihitenansa:
do u have a brain at all?

No but use yours if you have one.

Yyeske:
A war is different from what the OP is talking about, listen to him first before advertising your IPOB Biafra here.

This one needs holy strokes of cane

Bodies lies in the street of the Rwanda Capital.

Some 500 Tutsi massacred in a Church.

A young boy covers his face from the stench of dead bodies, July,1994.

A man walking through the field to bury his baby.

Orphans, sick and starved children of war

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Makeshift shelters are seen at a refugee camp in Benako, Tanzania, after torrential rain.

HiddenShadow:


This one needs holy strokes of cane

Loo

Na to bundle am put for booth, gather like 20 snakes wey dey harmless pour am inside the booth and close it.Make him shout her m brains out for 20 minutes before them bundle am out.