The Rwandan genocide took place in 1994, when a Hutu leaders plan was shot down. Hutu extremists took it upon themselves to scapegoat the Tutsi population for the murder of their leader. This started the mass killings of Tutsi's. The groups that were involved with these killings were the Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority. The most important date of this genocide was April 6, this is when the plane was shot down and genocidal killings began to start. THe common method of killing was with a machete, Hutu's would usually hack the Tutsi's until they were in bits and pieces. Others like burning people alive, women being raped by logs and machetes. THe worst being babies cut out of mothers and force fed to fathers. The number of deaths in the Rwandan genocide were 1,071,000 were killed by the end of this civil war, 10% of deaths being Hutu's. The UN, US had nothing to do with aiding in the stop of this genocide, the UN and US were criticized because they did not intervene to help. Many Hutu extremists were tried and jailed for such war crimes, some killed themselves before they were to make it to the court room. The current state of Rwanda is not as great. Economically they are under the poverty line, many people live on the streets or in shacks, and freedom in Rwanda is nit very common. GDP: 6.3 billion. GDP per capita: $644. life expectancy: m)58 w)61. HIV is a very big problem in Rwanda, many babies r born HIV as they don't have treatment or diagnostic abilities to diagnose people to have HIV. Rwanda mainly exports coffee and tea. They import machinery, tools, soap.plastics. A president runs Rwanda, so he has power over government and military.