Although generally perceived to be a genocide by the international community, the 1994 killing of approximately 800,000 Tutsis in Rwanda was seen at the time by Hutus as --

The mass killings began after the plane carrying Rwanda’s Hutu president, Juvénal Habyarimana, was shot down in April 1994. Hutu extremists blamed the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front and used the assassination to present the killings as retaliation. Thus, the choice describing the violence as a response to the assassination of a Hutu president is correct.

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