This month marks 30 years since the genocide in Rwanda. It has been estimated that over 800,000 people died in just three months in 1994.

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “In 1994, Rwanda’s population of 7 million was composed of three ethnic groups: Hutu (approximately 85 percent), Tutsi (14 percent) and Twa (1 percent).”

The U.S. State Department’s archive on Rwanda provides an interesting history on how the Tutsis minority in Rwanda, and neighboring Burundi, ruled over the Hutu:

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