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What event brought rwanda to the worlds attention in 1994?

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Germany had a plan to try and prevent Britain from gettingsupplies for war by using unrestricted submarine warfare (theGerman U boats). At first they only sank Allied ships, but one ship they sunk, a passenger ship called the "Lusitania", held a very large amount of passengers and many of them died...
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The Rwanda Genocide of 1994

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The civil war of Rwanda in 1994 was considered a Genocide because it was a mass slaughter carried out against Rwandan people that are of the Tutsi,Twa and moderate Hutu tribe in Rwanda.

The Assassination of the president of Rwanda on April 6 1994 left a power vacuum in the Government of Rwanda and The Military, police and militia group launched on attack on the Tutsi, TWA and Moderate Hutu tribe who were in the political class or Military in Rwanda in retaliation of the death pointing accusing fingers to the Rwandan progressive front which were mostly from the Tutsi tribe as the Brain behind the attacks on Rwanda in 1990

Most People killed during these attacks were killed by their neighbors and over 1000000 Rwandans people were killed during the attacks

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