This event is one of many cases of genocide in the 20th century. The events in Rwanda in 1994 pose many moral questions to all of us.
Genocide is the deliberate extermination of an ethnic, religious, political or national group.
Three groups of people are involved in genocide. In Rwanda the interhamwe were the perpetrators. They acted on the orders of the government and the army. The interhamwe were also, knowingly, provided with weapons by the French government. In Rwanda the victims were the Tutsi, and Hutu who opposed the policies of the Government and army.