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The telltale signs of brewing trouble are there. There is so much hate in the air being directed at the person of the President and former Prime Minister through cleverly crafted memes which, if allowed to continue, could grow into a monster that will be hard to contain.
In retrospect, the 1994 Rwanda genocide was a culmination of years of incitement to hatred against the Tutsi who were portrayed as a dangerous and inferior people by the Hutus. The trigger that sparked off the madness that claimed over 800,000 lives in just two months was the April 6, 1994 plane crash that claimed the life of President Juvenal Habyarimana. The plane crash was conveniently blamed on the Tutsi, then under the leadership of Paul Kagame.
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