Over the course of 100 days in 1994, between 7 April and mid-July, up to a million people were killed in Rwanda, in a mass slaughter unparalleled in modern history.
It is believed that 800,000 people were killed in the first six weeks, at a rate five times higher than that of the Nazi Holocaust. Around one-fifth of the country's entire population was murdered. Most of the dead were Tutsis, and most of the killers were Hutus. This was genocide; a concerted effort to exterminate an entire group of people.