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Although the Hutu and Tutsi people had been fighting before the Rwandan Civil War, that is the point in time fighting was the worst between these people. The most people died during this war. This feud began in the year of 1990. Before, the Hutu and Tutsi people actually lived together in harmony, though they had their fights every now and again. However, that all changed when independence came into the picture. The Belgian troops, who ruled and defended their area, were withdrawn from their positions. Then, in about 1962, Rwanda was formed. There was one leader who ruled the area. However, one day, he decided he could no longer rule and told the Tutsi people, who tended to be lighter-skinned to be in charge of Rwanda. This decision greatly upset the Hutu people, and war started. This genocide caused the death of about a million people.
The peoples human rights are very abused in this film. Women and children and tortured, sometimes caged, and killed. This genocide could have been prevented if the leader of both these people didn’t leave, or if the people did get so angered about t...

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