How Did The Htu Government Gain Power In Rwanda?

In the 1990's Rwanda was a nation that had already been plagued by civil unrest for over 30 years. The Hutu ethnic group made up the majority of the population in Rwanda and were ruled by an oppressive Tutsi government within the Belgian colony. After years of colonial rule a convergence of anti-colonial and anti-Tutsi groups emerged and, when Rwanda finally managed to gain independence in 1962, a Hutu led government was elected (Desforges, 1999). The complete reversal of ethnic dominance in the country disrupted the political system in Rwanda and political tensions were only heightened when Juvénal Habyarimana, a Hutu political leader, seized power in 1973. Unrest in the country continued to grow as a rebel group, the Tutsi-led RFP (Rwandan Patriotic Front), emerged to challenge the Hutu government (Desforges,1999).
Immediately after assuming power the Hutu government initiated a campaign of violence and discrimination against the Tutsi.
The government, along with the majority of Hutu citizens, carried a lingering resentment and fear of the Tutsis. The Hutus turned to a strategy of ethnic division (Desforges, 1999) and believed that an ethnic cleansing would solidify Hutu authority in the country. The president worked to instill a deep-rooted hatred of the Tutsis throughout the nation and "played upon memories of past dominatination" (Desforges, 1999). In 1992 the political situation in Rwanda appeared to stabilize for a brief moment when the RPF and the Rwandan government signed a ceasefire along with a series of agreements that would be known as the Arusha Accords (Desforges, 1999). However, when President Habyarimana's plane was shot down in 1993, all structures of peace collapsed. Hutu leader General Bagosora seized power and initiated the first wave of slaughters of the Tutsi. In the first 13 weeks following the 7th of April 1994, over half a million people were
dead.
Throughout the genocide the UN was a major contributor to the the devastation that ensued by indirectly allowing the genocide to surface and then rapidly evolve. It facilitated the violence of the genocidal government not through its actions, but rather the lack of. Unable to move past its desire to maintain diplomatic relationships, the UN compromised thousand of lives and continued to let a genocidal government rule in Rwanda. The UN's sure willingness to avoid both acknowledging the genocide (Desforges, 1999) and the moral obligations attached to it (Kassner, 2014) ultimately allowed a systematic ethnic cleansing to infect the nation and resulted in over 800 000 deaths.
The first indication of the UN’s inadequacy came at the very beginning of the genocide. When the genocide first came to rise, UN officials were swift to dismiss the nationwide slaughter of Tutsis as "tribal killings" (Desforges, 1999). Rwanda had a history laden with conflict between the two ethnic groups and, as a result, foreign executives were far too accustomed with the indifference towards any injustice in Africa, stuck in the mindset that the worl