Rwanda is a country in Africa surrounded by the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Burundi. In Rwanda, in 1994, the Hutu tribe represented approximately 85% of the population, the Tutsis 14% and the Twa 1%. At the time, the country was experiencing many economic, social and political problems. The very extremist Hutus believed, similar to the views of the Nazis during the Holocaust, that the root of most of their problems came from the minority tribe, the Tutsis. At that time there were many economic problems and the country was going the way of many other African countries in losing a lot of money. The extremists claimed that all the problems were caused by the Tutsis. (Genocide in Rwanda) Discrimination against Tutsis was not new, it had existed for years, but until the 1990s it was not so widespread. There were some violent actions, but they were small and not on the scale of the genocide. In the 1990s, Tutsis were not well represented in the government and so they pressured President Juvénal Habyarimana to include them in parts of the government. Just as he was about to sign the agreement, on April 6, 1994, a Hutu extremist group of trained killers called the Interahamwe shot down his plane. This caused an explosion of violence and war. With this event, the extremist Hutus began to implement their extermination plans. (Freeman, 24 years old) After the death of the President, the Hutus blamed the Tutsis for the assassination. This allowed the Hutu people to feel justified in doing what they were planning to do. In fact, this was not true, the Interahamwe, a Hutu military group, were actually responsible for his death. (Freeman, 25) The extremists took control of the government and began a tyranny... middle of paper... guilt that stayed there. A very similar thing also happened among the Tutsis. For the Tutsis, the places where they remembered the murders remained intact. Many Rwandans are still afraid of each other. (Jean Hatzfeld, Refugee Crisis)The country of Rwanda was radically changed by the genocide that took place here and the survivors live with the scars, both mental and physical, forever.Works CitedFreeman, Charles. Crisis in Rwanda. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1999. 1-40. Print. Hatzfeld, Jean. “The refugee crisis”. Rwandan stories. The RE Ross Trust, nd Web. February 25, 2014. “Rwanda, genocide, Hutu, Tutsi, mass executions, ethnic cleansing, massacre, human rights, memory of the victims, education, Africa. » UN News Centre. UN, nd Web. February 24, 2014. “United Human Rights Council.” United Council for Human Rights. Np, and Web. February 11. 2014.