Rwanda Synopsis

I found this really terrifyingly detailed article on the Rwandan genocide, written by Samantha Powers. It's kind of long, but I felt like it was definitely worth the read.

In the course of a hundred days in 1994 the Hutu government of Rwanda and its extremist allies very nearly succeeded in exterminating the country's Tutsi minority. Using firearms, machetes, and a variety of garden implements, Hutu militiamen, soldiers, and ordinary citizens murdered some 800,000 Tutsi and politically moderate Hutu. It was the fastest, most efficient killing spree of the twentieth century.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200109/power-genocide/1