L'extermination des Rwandais tutsi

On 11 October 1990, in Gisenyi, the massacre began of Tutsi considered to be close to the Rwandan Patriotic Front, the armed opposition to President Habyarimana's government. This set off a cycle of violence culminating in systematic extermination during April 1994. The first targets were Tutsi, because of their ethnic group, and then any Hutu who opposed extremism and advocated democratic ideas. This testimony to this tragedy leads us to think about the rationales at work in this genocide that, according to all evidence, top leaders in the Rwandan government had designed and planned. Establishing the history of this genocide is urgent; research must be undertaken with all possible means so as to identify the persons responsible and judge then in a fair trial.