The Rwandan Patriotic Front

For months, members of the Hutu ethnic majority in the east-central nation of Rwanda; murdered as many as 800,000 people, mostly of the Tutsi minority. Begun by extreme Hutu nationalists in the capital of Kigali, the genocide spread throughout the country with staggering speed and brutality, as ordinary citizens were incited by local officials and the Hutu Power government to take up arms against their neighbors. By the time the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front gained control of the country through a military offensive in early July, hundreds of thousands of Rwandans were dead and many more displaced from their homes. On the 10th anniversary of the tragedy, the Kigali Genocide Memorial was built to remember those that were lost that terrible