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Everyone is issued a ID card that classifys them as Tutsi, Hutu, or Twa.
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The UN (United Nations) make makes clear what a genocide is and makes it an international crime.
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The Hutu begin to rebel against the Tutsi and the Belgins.
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Rwanda gains Independance.
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Juvénal Habyarimana takes control of Rwanda he is the new president of Rwanda.
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The Rwandan Patriotic Front is formed in Uganda.
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This drop in coffe prices badly hurts the econnomy.
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This constatution allows for multiple political pparties.
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The Radio Télévison des Milles Collines begins spreading hate.
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Government positions are open for both Hutu and Tutsi.
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Juvénal Habyarimana is killed when his plane is shot down.
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Halle is at the cathtloc church and barely escapes death as she flees. Her father was not so lucky he was one of the hundreds killed in the Pallottine Missionary massacre, this was only targeting tutsi so this was one of the first signs of a genocide.
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At this massacre thousands of tutsi are killed, first by granades and guns then by machetes and clubs.
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12,000 tutsi are killed after sheltering at the Gatwaro stadium in Gitesi.50,000 more are killed in the hills of Bisesero. Halles two siblings were seeking shelter in the Gatwaro Stadium and she never saw them again.
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More than 250,000 tutsi flee to neighboring Tanzania, Halle finds her aunt and uncle in Tanzania and stays with them.
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Halle is born in Rwanda
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The RPF take control of the presidential palace.
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The French set up a border in the southwest part of Rwanda and Halle returns to find Rwanda in a terrible state.
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About 1,000,000 Hutu flee to Zaire and call themselvs the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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The RPF regains contorl of the country and the Genocide ends.
