Between April and July 1994 more than half a million Rwandans were killed in the space of just over 100 days in a planned, state-sponsored genocide waged against the country’s Tutsi minority.
The violence was chaotic and widespread. The vast majority of those killed were Tutsis – about two-thirds of the Tutsi population were murdered – and most of the perpetrators were from the majority caste, the Hutu.
