CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -On 7 April, UNESCO commemorates the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, which was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2003. The date marks the beginning of the genocide perpetrated against members of the Tutsi minority by the Hutu extremist-led government.

Detailed explanation-2: -over 800, 000 people were killed and between 250, 000 and 500, 000 women were raped. The genocide was brought about by a variety of factors, including the assassination of the president of Rwanda, Belgium’s colonisation of Rwanda in 1916 and the UN’s failure to respond to early warning signs.

Detailed explanation-3: -During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, members of the Hutu ethnic majority in the east-central African nation of Rwanda murdered as many as 800, 000 people, mostly of the Tutsi minority.

Detailed explanation-4: -On April 6, 1994, when the President’s plane was shot down, killing both the Rwandan and Burundian presidents, the radical Hutu radio channel announced the deaths, urging Hutus to “go to work” and attack the Tutsi population.

Detailed explanation-5: -The United Nations General Assembly adopts draft resolution A/72/L. 31, designating 7 April as the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It also recalls that during 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, Hutu and others who opposed it were also killed.