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Genocide: The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group.

The orphans have been left behind.

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Juvenal Habyarimana, late former president of Rwanda.

Cyprien Ntaryamira, late former president of neighbouring Burundi.

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Their plane was shot down by two rocket attacks from land on April 6, 1994.

Soon after that incident the Hutu Militias compromised mainly of ordinary citizens started a very well organized genocide of Tutsi minorities.

Machetes were the most popular weapon used in this genocide as guns and ammunitions would have proved to be very expensive.

Mass killings started at churches, such as this church Nyarbure which was the site for the massacre of 2000 people.

The pastor of this church wrote in a letter, "We wish to inform you that tormorrow we will be killed with our families."

Also was this jail cell in which all the people visible in the building were brutally murdered.

10 Belgian U.N. Peacekeepers were killed in Rwanda by local militias, causing the U.N. to pull out most of its troops from that country.

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This further eased the way for Hutu militias to continue their atrocities.

On July 17, 1994 the capital of Rwanda, Kigali was captured by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, a rebel group against the Hutu rule.

The RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front) was led by Paul Kagame who currently also sits as the President of Rwanda.

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This marked the end of a brutal genocide.

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What did the world do ? The CIA constantly kept sending warnings to the White House that a major conflict may erupt.

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President Clinton just signed a letter of condemnation and refused to label it as a 'Genocide.'

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United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said last year, "I could and should have done more to stop the genocide in Rwanda 10 years ago."

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He also said, "The international community is guilty of sins of omission (as it) failed Rwanda and that must leave us always with a sense of regret."

He further suggested, "I still believe that if an organization decided to wipe out the 320 mountain gorillas there would be still more of a reaction by the international community to curtail or to stop that than there would be still today in attempting to protect thousands of human beings being slaughtered in the same country."

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Almost a million people died.

But their orphans have been left behind.