Facts
Seventy percent of RWANDA'S ARE female. Half of them are estimated to be widows after the genocide ended.
-Out of the total 800,000 deaths in the genocide, 300,000 were children. Additionally, 95,000 children lost their parents, becoming orphans.
-Not only were Tutsis killed, Some people mistkaen as Tutsis were also killed.
-During the 100 days of slaughtering, 10% of the Rwanda's population were killed.
-150,000 people have died of AIDS in Rwanda - some 20,000 of these were children.
-Thousands of women raped during the genocide are now suffering from HIV or full blown AIDS.
-Throughout the course of 100 days from April 6 to July 16 1994, approximately 800,000 to 1 million Tutsis and some moderate Hutus were massacred in the Rwandan genocide.
-There are between 300,000 to 400,000 survivors of the genocide.
-Between 250,000 and 500,000 women were raped during the 100 days of genocide. As a result of this rape, up to 20,000 children were born from these women.
-75,000 of survivors were orphaned as a result of the genocide.
-Over half the children who survived stopped their schooling.
- April 6, 1994 - Habyarimana and neighboring Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira were killed in a rocket attack on their plane.
-RPF seized control of Rwanda after driving the 40,000-strong Hutu army and more than 2 million civilian Hutus into exile in Burundi,
-Not only were Tutsis killed, Some people mistkaen as Tutsis were also killed.
-During the 100 days of slaughtering, 10% of the Rwanda's population were killed.
-150,000 people have died of AIDS in Rwanda - some 20,000 of these were children.
-Thousands of women raped during the genocide are now suffering from HIV or full blown AIDS.
-Throughout the course of 100 days from April 6 to July 16 1994, approximately 800,000 to 1 million Tutsis and some moderate Hutus were massacred in the Rwandan genocide.
-There are between 300,000 to 400,000 survivors of the genocide.
-Between 250,000 and 500,000 women were raped during the 100 days of genocide. As a result of this rape, up to 20,000 children were born from these women.
-75,000 of survivors were orphaned as a result of the genocide.
-Over half the children who survived stopped their schooling.
- April 6, 1994 - Habyarimana and neighboring Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira were killed in a rocket attack on their plane.
-RPF seized control of Rwanda after driving the 40,000-strong Hutu army and more than 2 million civilian Hutus into exile in Burundi,