The devastation and mass killings by the Hutu’s did not get the world intervention it needed to help stop the killings. The 2005 HBO film, Sometimes in April, gives an account of the Rwandan Genocide through the experiences of two brothers and gives the audience an overview of how and why it occurred. On April 6 1994, a plane that was carrying the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, was shot down. Hutu extremists blamed the RPF, a Tutsi rebel group. The RPF claim this provided the excuse for the Hutu’s to begin the genocide they were planning. There were lists already prepared of Tutsi’s to be killed, and ID cards easily identified people of their ethnic group. In addition, thousands of Tutsi women were taken away and kept as sex slaves. Roadblocks were set up throughout the country to kill the fleeing Tutsi population. Radio stations called for the slaughter and even read off names of Tutsi’s to be killed. The radio stations and newspapers were used as propaganda to promote and hype the killings of Tutsi’s, as well as moderate Hutu’s who opposed the killing
The devastation and mass killings by the Hutu’s did not get the world intervention it needed to help stop the killings. The 2005 HBO film, Sometimes in April, gives an account of the Rwandan Genocide through the experiences of two brothers and gives the audience an overview of how and why it occurred. On April 6 1994, a plane that was carrying the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, was shot down. Hutu extremists blamed the RPF, a Tutsi rebel group. The RPF claim this provided the excuse for the Hutu’s to begin the genocide they were planning. There were lists already prepared of Tutsi’s to be killed, and ID cards easily identified people of their ethnic group. In addition, thousands of Tutsi women were taken away and kept as sex slaves. Roadblocks were set up throughout the country to kill the fleeing Tutsi population. Radio stations called for the slaughter and even read off names of Tutsi’s to be killed. The radio stations and newspapers were used as propaganda to promote and hype the killings of Tutsi’s, as well as moderate Hutu’s who opposed the killing