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On April 6, 1994 a jet carrying Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana was shot down, and “decades of conflict between the Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority erupted into a full-scale genocide (Power, 2002: 331). Prior to this, “There were between 900,000 and one million Tutsis in the population. At the end of 1994, only 130,000 Tutsis survived; between 70 and 80 percent of the Tutsi population had been killed” (Sperling, 2006: 639). Fifteen years later, more than 100,000 Rwandans remained in prison for their role in the 1994 genocide where an estimated 900,000 people were killed in 100 days (Melvern, 2004; Powley, 2003).
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Sjoberg, L. (2010). Reconstructing Women in Postconflict Rwanda. In: Chandler, R.M., Wang, L., Fuller, L.K. (eds) Women, War, and Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230111974_11
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