Rwanda genocide
The Rwanda genocide was genocide that occurred in Rwanda in 1994. It is generally considered to have lasted from 7 April to 15 July 1994.
The exact scale of the genocide is not known. Rwanda officially estimates the death toll at one million while Western academics claim a figure of 500,000-600,000. What is clear though is that the overwhelming majority of deaths were of men and boys.
It is well documented that large numbers of women were active participants in the genocide, in which they killed men, woman and children. Many commentators claim this was unusual but a review of history demonstrates that it was infact entirely typical.
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The following articles all claim that Rwanda was 60-70% female immediately after the genocide. The next census was 2002 which put the country at about 55% female. This is not necessarily contradictory when we consider that many Rwandans had fled and may have returned after the genocide. We might also have seen men from neighbouring countries being attracted to Rwanda by the number of available women.
- When all the Good Men are Gone: Sex Ratio and Domestic Violence in Post-Genocide Rwanda
- https://archive.is/wNTqF
- https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/07/29/487360094/invisibilia-no-one-thought-this-all-womans-debate-team-could-crush-it
- https://archive.is/0YMBq
- https://www.hrw.org/reports/1996/Rwanda.htm
- https://archive.is/etFaV
- https://www.proquest.com/blog/pqblog/2017/Perspectives-on-the-Evolving-Role-of-Women-in-Rwanda.html
- https://archive.is/4as1z
Additional info:
- https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1193&context=gsp
- https://www.statista.com/statistics/967909/total-population-of-rwanda-by-gender/
Quote
“The genocide in Rwanda is a far-reaching tragedy that has taken a particularly hard toll on women. They now comprise 70 percent of the population, since the genocide chiefly exterminated the male population.” --Aloysia Inyumba [1][2]