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 * Between April and June 1994, an estimated 1,000,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days.** **That's 10,000 people a day, roughly. We said "Never again" after the Holocaust, this is less than 13 years ago.** But, it wasn't that the Hutus were killing 10,000 people a day. Cholera, diarrhea and other diseases killed more than 50,000 of these refugees. Cholera swept through the refugee camps. The UN Representative to Rwanda, Shahryar Khan, said that the camps were a "revision of hell". Also, AIDS/HIV swept through the camps easily because of poor sanitation and this wiped out many adults and children alike.

The majority, Hutus, basically called a war on the minority, Tutsis. The Tutsis were originally considered smarter than the Hutus, so the Hutus finally revolted in a very bloody genocide which displaced millions of people, and hundreds of thousand of them being "Unaccompanied Orphans".

250,000 Rwandan Refugees. [1]


 * Obviously, what caused all the refugees was the persecution of the Tutsis caused by the Hutus. The refugee crisis is formally known as the** **Great Lakes refugee crisis**. Over two million Rwandans were misplaced in this genocide as refugees. This issue did not subside until the start of the First Congo War in 1996, but there are still hundreds of thousands of misplaced families and orphans.

1. "Rwandan Refugees." Rwandan Refugees. 2005. Exile Images. 25 Apr. 2007 

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