Gabe+Somalia+and+Rwanda

=**Rwandan Genocide**=

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This is a picture of Rwanda located in Africa. ====In 1994 there was a mass killing of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Tutsi and Hutu population. The death toll came up to 800,000-1,000,000 people. It began April 6 and lasted for 100 days. The Hutu milit ====

ia used clubs and machetes to kill as many as 10,000 Tutsi a day. The populat
====ion or Rwanda is just 8 million people divided into two major ethnic groups, the Hutu and Tutsi. After ten soldiers from Belgium were captured and tortured U.S, France, Belgium, and Italy all started to remove their troops from Rwanda. However no Tutsi citizens were evacuated so they had to fend for them selves. The worst of the massacres occurred in churches ==== ====and mission compounds where Tutsi were hiding in large numbers. Hospitals also became targets, the Hutu would go and kill any wounded Tutsi. The initial US reaction to the Genocide was to not even acknowledge it as genocide so they wouldn’t have to get involved in the conflict. Finally in late July with the evidence of genocide increasing the US launched a substantial operation to stop the extermination. ====

Skulls of the dead Tutsi collected from one village.
====The killings only ended when a group of armed Tutsi rebels invaded from neighboring countries. They managed to defeat the Hutu and put and end to the killings in July of 1994. Over one tenth of the population was murdered. ====

=Somalia Civil War = ==== Somalia was formed by the union of British and Italian Somaliland. Somalia has been with an unstable government since 1991 because dictator Mohamed Siad Barre fled the country. Fighting between rival leaders led to the killing and starvation of thousands of Somalis. This caused the United States and other nations to launch peacekeeping operations. The US and U.N. recieved significant causalties with 19 dead and 80 wounded US troops. Which caused the U.S. to withdraw their forces in 1994 and the U.N. in 1995. The U.N. continued to supply Somalia with food aid but they did not send any troops. A relative calm arose by the late 1990s. A Transitional government arose in 2000 but soon lost power. ====  Map of Somalia