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International Day of Reflection on 1994 Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda – April 7
April 9 , 2020
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- On April 7, 2004, it was recognized as an international observance by the United Nations.
- More than 800,000 Tutsi people were systematically murdered in a genocide perpetrated by the Hutu extremist-led government in Rwanda.
- Tutsis are the second largest population division among the three largest groups in Rwanda and Burundi; the other two being the Hutu (largest) and the Twa (smallest).
- The Tutsi are a social class or ethnic group of the African Great Lakes region.
- The African Great Lakes are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift.
- They include Lake Victoria, the third-largest fresh water lake in the world by area, Lake Tanganyika, the world's second-largest freshwater lake by volume and depth, and Lake Malawi, the world's eighth-largest fresh water lake by area.
- Countries in the African Great Lakes region include Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.
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